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Old 05-17-2016, 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by swaghauler View Post
You'd NEVER be able to perform B52 or B1/B2 landing and take-off operations on the interstates in PA. The standards of construction for roads and bridges had fallen so far below standards in the 90's that they would just fall through the roadway's asphalt and crash.

Fighters could land and take off though.
In the 60's the highways had a foundation of concrete under asphalt, now it is just thicker asphalt. So old highways are GTG, new ones not so much.
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