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Anonymous (ID: bzs0gEx9) Greece No.509594795 >>509595057
Blue ice runaway
Are we supposed to believe a plane with wheels can land on an ice runaway? Apparently they are only found in Antarctica, at least as Wikipedia says.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_runway
Anonymous (ID: 7X3MygeT) United States No.509595057 >>509595578 >>509595921
>>509594795 (OP)
The plane has skis actually
Anonymous (ID: sEXRuPkJ) Canada No.509595079 >>509597198
They frequently land CF-130s on ice,
Once flew in a fuckton of mattresses in one and landed it on the river/ice and made markers using burn barrels and plowed a runway.

t.
Anonymous (ID: sEXRuPkJ) Canada No.509595273
Most runways in the artic are longer than required to accommodate landing on compacted snow/ice.
They have someone to maintain and plow the runway all day long as communities are entirely dependent on pallets of pop/soda arriving by plane or it's lord of the flies.

The bush pilot era and it's consequences is of note to Canadian history enthusiasts.
Anonymous (ID: sEXRuPkJ) Canada No.509595578 >>509596379
>>509595057
Float planes/bush planes do.
Your normal planes landing on the runway all have normal wheels.

t. Posted a picture of a plane a few years ago that landed face first off the runway,
>They restored it.
>It crashed again recently.

>See news article while drinking government issued coffee.
>RCMP plane decided to do a barrel roll and transform itself into a helicopter.
>Pilot won't be named cause it's the machine ls fault.


>If you come up here you might hear the legend of how a few buckets of KFC lead to the mostly peaceful takeover of a bush pilots shenanigans.
Anonymous (ID: bzs0gEx9) Greece No.509595921 >>509596268
>>509595057
The arcticlenis saying that blue ice runaways benefit heavier planes with wheels
Anonymous (ID: sEXRuPkJ) Canada No.509596268
>>509595921
Nigga have you ever stood in the middle of the ocean and looked down.

If you can drive a fully loaded 18 wheeler on ice, you can land a fucking plane.
Anonymous (ID: bzs0gEx9) Greece No.509596379
>>509595578
This huge cargo plane Iluushin Il-76 landed on blue ice?
Anonymous (ID: bzs0gEx9) Greece No.509597198
>>509595079
The C130 landing on ice videos I saw were using ski pedals
https://youtu.be/R_JpQ2gar5U