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Airport to be repaved after planes sank in asphalt
A 30,000-pound Bombardier Challenger and a 15,500-pound Cessna Citation XLS sank into the asphalt ramp in June on days when the temperature reached only into the 70s. (duboiscountyherald.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
In June of 1974 my orders were "mis-filed" and I ended up at Great Lakes Naval Training Center Transient Personnel Unit. At morning muster our collective feet would sink into the asphalt while the illiterate Postal Petty Officer tried to read our names and nobody saw anything wrong with that. We were at parade rest which possibly put additional stress on the asphalt.
Sounds like the Nave I was in!
Should have been Navy.
About 20 years ago, they replaced the two parallel runways at SJC (San Jose, CA). They are 11,000 feet long and it was said that there is enough concrete in the runways to form a city sidewalk from San Jose to San Diego. It looked like the concrete and rebar was about 4 feet thick.
Had this happen with our GII at Maclaren Field in Las Vegas. (After fueling to near max)
Had to have the FBO locate some 48x48 inch x 1.00 inch thick steel plates as we were going to be there for three days...
Had to have the FBO locate some 48x48 inch x 1.00 inch thick steel plates as we were going to be there for three days...
Runways and taxiways fine but the FBO parking for RON aircraft was weak. FBO had us park on 4x8 sheets of 3/4 inch plywood. Worked fine but taxiing out we blew those plywood sheets across the FBO parking lot.