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Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a... by ttepasse on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:44PM (#37773209)
In the Falklands war the British Forces established a Forward Operating Base for its Harriers STOVL jets at San Carlos, using Prefabricated Surfacing Airfield interlocking panels.

Some information here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170606073832/http://www.thinkd...

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Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a... by whycome on Thursday October 05, 2023 @12:23PM (#37780590)
Harriers are still Sci-Fi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GfqB7P6uAE

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Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a... by qingcharles on Friday October 06, 2023 @11:34PM (#37798815)
I came home once in Bristol, UK and there was a Harrier hovering a few tens of feet above my house slowly rotating. I do not know why it was there. I lived at the end of a runway.

It left once I pulled into my driveway.

Concorde used to miss my roof by a very short amount when it would land on the runway, and everything would jiggle off my shelves.

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