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Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by Piskvorrr on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:44AM (#34322469)
Not that uncommon. The Czech motorway D1 can be converted to a military airstrip here: https://www.google.com/maps/@49.3870307,15.9211894,289m/data...

See where the grass divider ends, and gets replaced by a jersey barrier for 2 km? That part is the runway - it would require some hours of preparation before it would be usable, it's not quite "declare mayday and dump the plane there."

Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by noduerme on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:09AM (#34322656)
ah, that's very cool. Makes me think of all kinds of NATO-level shit that's strewn around the world waiting to be uncovered ;)

The thing with the road in Uruguay is that as you're driving, there's basically a yellow sign with a picture of an airplane and an arrow pointing up, and you're like "what the fuck did that mean?" And then suddenly you understand exactly what it meant because you're driving on a fucking runway...

Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by Piskvorrr on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:27AM (#34323197)
As in, "give way to aircraft from above" :D
Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by dalkvist on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:30AM (#34323226)
Sweden had/has roads onthe middle of nowhere/forest that has more free space on the sides and at each end of particularly strate and flat stretches, there are oversized parking spots. Supposedly so fighter planes could refuse and rearm from mobile crews
Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by jabl on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:35AM (#34335747)
Finland has plenty of those too. Here's a video of an F-18 doing a landing and takeoff from such a stretch of road during some exercise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_eJxy8ojk

Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by Arnt on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:30AM (#34323230)
The ones I've been on weren't signposted at all. You're just on a road, and suddenly the road is completely straight and very wide, and 3km later it's back to normal, and there's nothing visible nearby.

I googled and found a list on https://www.mil-airfields.de/se/list.htm but IIRC there must be something further northwest, not on the list.

Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by mormegil on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:54AM (#34323430)
The Czech one is more of a Warsaw-Pact-level shit. :-) Here is a (originally secret) documentary video about MiG-21 exercise on the highway (in Czech, obviously): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDoZGoaG9_w
Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by pxmpxm on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @11:15PM (#34334946)
Wrong spot, I'm pretty sure youre thinking of Vyškov https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2936699,17.0223332,1311m/dat...
Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by Piskvorrr on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:23AM (#34414450)
And I'm absolutely sure I wasn't: two different spots, both near military airbases, this one is somewhat longer than the Vyškov one. Personally drove on both of them, many times. Can't find an English source though: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leti%C5%A1t%C4%9B_M%C4%9B%C5%9...
Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by pxmpxm on Thursday January 19, 2023 @10:23PM (#34448811)
Hmmm is that the one with the windmill rest stop thingy nearby?
Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by Piskvorrr on Monday January 30, 2023 @04:20AM (#34577545)
Not aware of a windmill. The one I originally referenced has a McDonalds these days :D