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To: Pelham

Yep. And did you know that every 5 miles on the interstate highway system there has to be at least on stretch of road that is straight for 1 mile. This was so aircraft could use the highway as an emergency landing strip.


16 posted on 01/14/2013 10:13:14 AM PST by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: econjack
Yep. And did you know that every 5 miles on the interstate highway system there has to be at least on stretch of road that is straight for 1 mile.

West Virginia musta not got the memo on that!

17 posted on 01/14/2013 10:15:39 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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To: econjack

I know that the Germans had designed their autobahns to handle aircraft as early as WWII but I didn’t know that we had done something similar.

The Germans were parking their planes under overpasses to hide them from the USAAF and then wheeling them out and taking off from the autobahn.


23 posted on 01/14/2013 6:49:03 PM PST by Pelham (Betrayal, it's not just for Democrats anymore.)
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