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Offline wavecrest1

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Stripper at an Airshow
« on: May 03, 2017, 01:46:26 PM »
Errr.... It was a runway stripper ... took the top layer of concrete right off...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/02/vintage-plane-rips-runway-take-off-inwolverhampton/
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Re: Stripper at an Airshow
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2017, 07:49:28 PM »
Pretty obvious the runway was in a very poor state,and had not been checked for some time-the article says the Vampire aircraft used the same runway without any problem the day before,that was probably just good fortune.
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