Air Force unleashes Ghostrider on Arkansas highway
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ย. 2024
- The U.S. military is getting pretty good at landing big planes in what supposedly “non-traditional locations.” In early August, Special Tactics Airmen from the 1st Special Operations Wing landed an AC-130J Ghostrider on a remote stretch of Highway-63 near Bono, Arkansas.
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Military usage of the highway was always one of the reasons why they built them in the first place
So rising tensions means better road maintenance?
I had a teacher in 9th grade back in 1978 tell our class that the interstate systems across the country was by in large built for the military for quick mobilization. I never forgot that , very true.
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket not in Michigan 🤣😂
In South Korea, you will see painted runway numbers on the highway. Not much of a secret anymore.
That's the sole purpose of the Eisenhower Interstate system. If you will notice on any Interstate that is a part of the Eisenhower system there is usually a 1 mile straight-a-way at each exit designed to be used as an emergency supply runway during war times.
I hope our airmen know they are bad asses and we are so proud of them!
@@jinjin0135 CCT / ATC above ☝️
I'm no bad ass ! I LOVE MY COUNTRY and LOVED MY JOB right in the middle of all that ANTI-WAR SHIT ! Glad to do it .
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I hope our airmen know many of us don’t want them involved in every squabble on the planet either.
@@franksullivan1873 they’re airmen not politicians bimbo
@@eugeneostrander-iw2np Least obvious disinformation troll
The loadmaster (or whomever) calling taxi information to the pilot out the back bay door during backward taxi is an IMPORTANT JOB!
LOVE THIS AIRCRAFT!!! ❤❤ It's one of the reasons my son went into the US Air Force for 22 years.
These planes were perfect for the Vietnam war. I worked on a few in the day. Short landing and take offs make them very versatile.
I just want to know how they found a Arkansas highway that wasn't in eternal road repairs.
Most has been done for years now
I guess they figured that, if they can land in Arkansas, they can land anywhere!
@@user-xn4hu3nh9n you forgot the second "for" in your statement.
"Most has been done for, for years now."
There you go.
Or full of 18 wheelers driving side by side in both lanes.
That’s why they didn’t land in illinoid.
Is getting ready to catch The Blackout Dodge Charger .
Little Rock AFB has an assault strip painted like a highway that C-130s practice landing on. This has also been done for decades in Europe by NATO conuntries.
Aye. I've seen numerous video of Euro fighters and other support aircraft landing on rural highways and roads.
@ 1:00 - I like the backup camera on the plane.
😂😂😂😂
That's not a back up camera he's a gunner protecting the rear of the aircraft as they back blind.
I still ask, WHY WHY WHY do we tell the world all our secrets? No one needs this information, period! We never learn!
Thanks to ike Eisenhower !..when the interstates were being laid out he demanded that every 5 miles there would be one mile of straight even highway for landing aircraft ..
False. Debunked for the first time in 2000. It is a widespread myth, and it sounds cool, if it was true.
This is probably why the Hercules has remained still in use after 60 years. They were primarily designed to land and takeoff from makeshift runways. Onre time, they almost created a rocket variant designed to land and take off from a football field for a one-time operation.
Musk did it, using the same rocket over and over again. Smart man, we would need smart people like that in the military, not DEI, i mean qualified people.
Theyalso imagined one that could land and take off of an aircraft carrier, but it was never put into production, even as a prototype.
Rockstar added that variant to GTA Online and it was amazing to fly.
@@Plasmastorm73_n5evvno, they actually did fly several off of an aircraft carrier, and landed them back on the carrier, theres footage out there
Those bad boys could shut down our Southern border in one week.
Inaccurate title. If the AF had 'unleashed' Ghostrider on the highway there would no longer be a highway.
So they are planning on having battles here in the USA.
Yup
Millions of invaders here and ready
Only a matter of time.
The US has only been invaded on a military scale just once in her modern, The Aleutian Islands Campaign, when japanese forces invaded and occupied two of the islands. This is just something that is inevitablle. We will be at war on US soil at some point.
Sad to say, but your probably right.
In South Korea the billboards along the highway can fold down to allow large wingspan aircraft to land on their highways.
We were doing this in South Korea 🇰🇷 40 years ago with runway markings on major highways and portable control towers.
And the ASP quickly executed a pit maneuver.
Looking for this comment. Hope someone informs Trooper Byrd !
I guess that landing C-130s in dirt fields is like Winning Wars.
The military just isn't allowed to do that anymore.
According to the press release it was in case of a New Madrid earthquake it will use interstate 55 as landing strip to bring in equipment and take out injured.
Original name of the interstate was Interstate Defense Highway System .
... and designed to link the military vases to seaports and airfields for faster deployment.
The Interstate Highway System has actually had four different names.
1. Originally called the National System of Interstate Highways. This was conceptual with no construction.
2. The National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as developed and constructed per the 1956 Interstate Highway Act.
3. Renamed the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways to honor President Eisenhower. The word "National" was mistakenly omitted.
4. Renamed the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Current name.
Good thing about a Harrier Jet, Osprey, or helicopter is that it can land on a Winn-Dixie parking lot and pop in for some chicken and Mountain Dew, or a Snickers if they get hangry.
The harrier they can take through the McDonald's drive through
Ghost rider was badass, they messed with the story a bit too much for the sequel, but it was still good in my opinion
I didnt know they made a 2nd ghost rider until you started reading the script. Pretty sweet! That script is quite the teacher!
How many other people thought he said 'Fart'? 🤣🤣
Arkansas has THE WORST roads. i live on the border and when you cross the line you feel and hear it immediately.
Send them some money
Louisiana is even worse.
Remember kids the elections are valid or ghost rider comes out to remind you 😂
Combat. Sure China. That's what long straight away's on the freeways were designed for in this country. Have you seen how thick they have the concrete. Thick enough for a runway, not just cars and trucks. Under the road crossing over the top of the freeway is a perfect place to park a fighter jet or two.
I believe the interstate system was designed with every 5th mile having to be level and straight.
Numerous folks swear Interstate highways in the United States must be designed so that one mile in every five is perfectly straight and flat.
According to this whispered bit of facetious lore, if the U.S. ever comes under attack, those straight, flat stretches will be used as landing strips.
Belief in this crazy idea should fail anyone's logic test. It makes no sense to render inoperable the Interstate highway system during times of domestic crisis - moving troops and supplies on the ground would be too important an activity to curtail just to land planes. The U.S. is riddled with any number of small, private airfields that could be pressed into service if the need arose, with that need being dependent on some foreign power having first knocked out an almost uncountable number of major airports plus those airstrips on military bases, not to mention the American fleet of aircraft carriers. Folks who commit to believing this crazy notion of highways doubling by design as airstrips are letting the romance of a "cool fact" blind them to what their common sense should be blinking at them in bright neon letters.
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either.
Where I live a highway was built several years ago that has a long straight level section for this purpose. All the power lines are positioned far off the thoroughfare making it wide open. I don't think any aircraft have landed on it though, it's pretty busy most of the time.
There's a little dirt runway on the side of road in Walton County FL that's been used by the Air Force for at least 60 years. Drive by it every time I go to the springs.
Additionally civilian pilots sometimes use them in Emergency Situations. Unfortunately you have to get the airplane past a destroyed runway to use any surface for take off or landing. This is the challenge in certain areas. These planes are not designed to go througn some off road conditions, and the landing gear can be damaged
Adds new meaning to "Speed Enforced by aircraft".......
Yeah, we got a cargo plane that can do a K turn on a highway. Logistics, logistics, always logistics
I bet that was a surprise for a few Arkansas Highway Patrol
A straight road in SW Arkansas is hard to find. Good luck.😂
Bono, AR. is pronounced with hard o’s… like Bozo the clown, not like how the musician pronounces his name. 😜
Well, it could just be that we can’t talk down here in Arkansas. 😉
Did the plane fly out of the Little Rock AFB? I think they fly C-130’s out of there.
There was a C-130H out of Little Rock that took part. All the other craft were assigned to AFSOC out of Hurlburt Field, Florida. Thanks for watching, and the lesson in pronunciation!
A dirt runway would be better than I-30
C130 destroyed Jonesboro AR airport about 40 years ago. Tires cut grooves 10" deep due to weight.
I guess I missed the unleashing part.
Imagine the random ruts left😂😂
Forgotten knowledge. The interstate highway system was designed from the beginning for emergency landing places for airplanes!!!!!!
BS Knowledge...IT WAS NOT! The highway system was designed and implimented when aircraft were still landing on dirt strips and couls land on football and soccer fields...
Numerous folks swear Interstate highways in the United States must be designed so that one mile in every five is perfectly straight and flat.
According to this whispered bit of facetious lore, if the U.S. ever comes under attack, those straight, flat stretches will be used as landing strips.
Belief in this crazy idea should fail anyone's logic test. It makes no sense to render inoperable the Interstate highway system during times of domestic crisis - moving troops and supplies on the ground would be too important an activity to curtail just to land planes. The U.S. is riddled with any number of small, private airfields that could be pressed into service if the need arose, with that need being dependent on some foreign power having first knocked out an almost uncountable number of major airports plus those airstrips on military bases, not to mention the American fleet of aircraft carriers. Folks who commit to believing this crazy notion of highways doubling by design as airstrips are letting the romance of a "cool fact" blind them to what their common sense should be blinking at them in bright neon letters.
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either.
I work near a remote airport with a long runway that has C-130s in, out, and around, on an almost daily basis. Even though I may have over a dozen flyovers in a day I'm always looking for the extra guns. You never know...
All the talk of war with China is so surreal. I don’t know how that would look given we’re such strong trade partners. American consumerism would grind to a halt. Everything from batteries to shirts would be unavailable here.
Enjoy the show
This and to be able to quickly transport armor.
They did this last year on a Highway outside my town in Wyoming. Pretty cool.
some of the footage later in the piece with the A-10 is from Wyoming. Go Pokes!
Theyre practicing for martial law..
From an X USAF COMBAT CONTROL TEAM MEMBER / AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER -- GREAT REPORT ! LONG LIVE the C-130 !
Also , GOD BLESS our NUCLEAR SUBMARINE FORCES because M.A.D. is BACK !
My dad was a Loadmaster C-130 Vietnam, hated the war, loved the plane, told me stories, bullets strafing thru it, and couldn't bring it down, said there built like a Tank... and since there making them gunship as well... there even more Badass, they should never get rid of these work horses.
M.A.D. Never ended...
Getting good? We've been doing this for decades with all different kinds of airplanes.
Well maybe they can start spending some money on infrastructure
My dad and them use to land on the autobahn all the time during cold war training .
Aftrr this landing, theres officially no more good roads in Arkansas
That isn’t even a popular at highway, try 40, 540, 49, 62
@@user-xn4hu3nh9n That's why they landed there. They choose lesser known ot used roads.
Funny of you to assume there were any other then that 1 before they landed there, the interstates are always under construction and the highways never get repaired
Had to get some of that Tyson chicken now all that needs is waffles
The Eisenhower 5 star roadway system is the reason this was possible. Lol, they didn’t need to do much research it been out in the open and most anyone that has hit a long straight stretch of highway has been on an defensive runway. They even have little nifty signage indicating which roads are built for it. 😂 some people have never had to play I spy on a family road-trip
I love how people keep perpetuating this lie. The highway system was NOT built to land aircraft...
Numerous folks swear Interstate highways in the United States must be designed so that one mile in every five is perfectly straight and flat.
According to this whispered bit of facetious lore, if the U.S. ever comes under attack, those straight, flat stretches will be used as landing strips.
Belief in this crazy idea should fail anyone's logic test. It makes no sense to render inoperable the Interstate highway system during times of domestic crisis - moving troops and supplies on the ground would be too important an activity to curtail just to land planes. The U.S. is riddled with any number of small, private airfields that could be pressed into service if the need arose, with that need being dependent on some foreign power having first knocked out an almost uncountable number of major airports plus those airstrips on military bases, not to mention the American fleet of aircraft carriers. Folks who commit to believing this crazy notion of highways doubling by design as airstrips are letting the romance of a "cool fact" blind them to what their common sense should be blinking at them in bright neon letters.
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either.
good the ACs caught up. MC-130s do this often.
I do not get the fuss... The C-130 was made to land on small fields, roads or even grass air strips....Rather then them land a normal cargo C-130 the land one with guns out of the side, but it is still the 130 air frame.... It is like comparing what a unpainted NASCAR can do to what a painted NASCAR can do..... For crying out loud the 130 air frame is so good they fly them into hurricanes to get wind speed and weather info like that at the eye of the storm!!!!
if that hiway was in califonia they would have to "smooth" it out first with the 105!
"Unleashes" means "landed on." Clickbait title if there ever was one. 🙄
What first time?. Laughable. You do know that most Freeways/highways (Fed funding) are constructed with aircraft landing (Mil) in mind. Done w/purpose, on purpose.😊
First time a Ghostrider did it. Thanks for watching
NOPE THAT IS A FALSE MMYTH:
Numerous folks swear Interstate highways in the United States must be designed so that one mile in every five is perfectly straight and flat.
According to this whispered bit of facetious lore, if the U.S. ever comes under attack, those straight, flat stretches will be used as landing strips.
Belief in this crazy idea should fail anyone's logic test. It makes no sense to render inoperable the Interstate highway system during times of domestic crisis - moving troops and supplies on the ground would be too important an activity to curtail just to land planes. The U.S. is riddled with any number of small, private airfields that could be pressed into service if the need arose, with that need being dependent on some foreign power having first knocked out an almost uncountable number of major airports plus those airstrips on military bases, not to mention the American fleet of aircraft carriers. Folks who commit to believing this crazy notion of highways doubling by design as airstrips are letting the romance of a "cool fact" blind them to what their common sense should be blinking at them in bright neon letters.
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either.
This is not something new.
I've seen the C130 land on the Korean highway, and on The Autobahn. They are designed to land basically anywhere. Some flat field in Africa? No problem.
First time a Ghostrider did it
One of the things Eisenhower demanded when he authorized the Interstate freeway system was that some stretches had to be reinforced for aircraft and long enough to land on. This was to facilitate the interim dispersal of SAC and its bombers and support aircraft. The fact the Air Force is doing this should let the people know that WWIII is definitely on the horizon or they would not have done this.
It's the military's job to train for wars that may or may not happen, just like it is to plan for wars that may or may not happen. It's called readiness.
BOY ARE YOU IGNORANT. Allow me to educate you on the REAL highways act:
Numerous folks swear Interstate highways in the United States must be designed so that one mile in every five is perfectly straight and flat.
According to this whispered bit of facetious lore, if the U.S. ever comes under attack, those straight, flat stretches will be used as landing strips.
Belief in this crazy idea should fail anyone's logic test. It makes no sense to render inoperable the Interstate highway system during times of domestic crisis - moving troops and supplies on the ground would be too important an activity to curtail just to land planes. The U.S. is riddled with any number of small, private airfields that could be pressed into service if the need arose, with that need being dependent on some foreign power having first knocked out an almost uncountable number of major airports plus those airstrips on military bases, not to mention the American fleet of aircraft carriers. Folks who commit to believing this crazy notion of highways doubling by design as airstrips are letting the romance of a "cool fact" blind them to what their common sense should be blinking at them in bright neon letters.
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either.
While attending Team Spirit exercises in South Korea in the mid 80’s the forces of the US and ROK, would routinely use the highways for refueling
Nice!!
Now I know what they were constructing in the median of the highway for the past couple years.
Well now that the enemy knows they will just destroy the roads too.
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He never said what an "ass sock" was?
I was wondering about that too 😃
:46 "According to the Air Force Special Operations Command, or AFSOC..."
AFSOC not ass sock.
With today's modern weapons, ghost rider will be a will of the wisp in short order. It is a slow mover and a easily detectable target.
I don't know about will of the wisp. These planes have been around for more than 60 years. Although the J model gave us a better toilet, an extra hatch, and if I remember correctly, it was stretched a few feet. And one of the major talents from the beginning, is that it takes very little space to take off and land. And although preferred, it never NEEDED a proper runway.
We’re practicing dispersal? Uh oh. Lol
Johnny Blaze 2 Heck yeah I gotta watch dat me .... I liked da first one ........ Ok back to your commentary in dis video...
@ (2:39) - white orb comes in view mid left middle of screen, all the way to down right of screen view (2:45) -
Your right!
Reflection of a bright light like the sun inside the lens of the camera as the camera pans to keep the plane centered.
Well, this is spooky of they're starting these exercises now.
Good thing to start training before crap hits the fan instead of scrambling to figure it out.
Recently, the Supreme court passed two very noteworthy rulings. One being that it can be considered illegal to camp/reside on public property and the other being the President is immune to criminal prosecution for official acts while in office.
Except they can't pass laws, ONLY CONGRESS has that power. The ruling by the judges on Presidential prosecution was stolen from Congress and ILLEGALLY made law by SCOTUS
Logistics wins wars
I;ve seen A-10’s and F-16land on hi ways.
Stay safe out there my might lady’s of valor arms forces. Men. Take care of yourself your wife your child
Now buy some Grippens !!!
Fighter designed to take off from roads .
Folks, I know the interstate system was built to handle aircraft landings.
This is the first time an AC-130J landed on a highway. Thus, the story.
Thanks for watching!
Then you know nothing because it was NOT!
Numerous folks swear Interstate highways in the United States must be designed so that one mile in every five is perfectly straight and flat.
According to this whispered bit of facetious lore, if the U.S. ever comes under attack, those straight, flat stretches will be used as landing strips.
Belief in this crazy idea should fail anyone's logic test. It makes no sense to render inoperable the Interstate highway system during times of domestic crisis - moving troops and supplies on the ground would be too important an activity to curtail just to land planes. The U.S. is riddled with any number of small, private airfields that could be pressed into service if the need arose, with that need being dependent on some foreign power having first knocked out an almost uncountable number of major airports plus those airstrips on military bases, not to mention the American fleet of aircraft carriers. Folks who commit to believing this crazy notion of highways doubling by design as airstrips are letting the romance of a "cool fact" blind them to what their common sense should be blinking at them in bright neon letters.
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either.
@@Plasmastorm73_n5evv Thanks for watching! I never said anything about the 1 every 5 miles thing. Just that interstates (and some highways) are built to withstand aircraft landings. Clearly, militaries have been doing it for decades regardless of whether it was ever codified into any sort of transportation safety act.
Af said we can make our own run way on that island
@habituallinecrosser which one is this from your video
I’m wondering if the asphalt on that Highway is strong enough to handle that kind of load?! 🤔
So we go ahead and plaster it all over the internet so they know where to keep an eye out
president Eisenhower put in highway system in 1950s with all long straight roads by bases for that reason not new
HE DID NOT. STOP SPREADING THIS STUPID LIE. IT HAD BEEN DEBUNKED AND PROVED BULLSHIT!!!
Numerous folks swear Interstate highways in the United States must be designed so that one mile in every five is perfectly straight and flat.
According to this whispered bit of facetious lore, if the U.S. ever comes under attack, those straight, flat stretches will be used as landing strips.
Belief in this crazy idea should fail anyone's logic test. It makes no sense to render inoperable the Interstate highway system during times of domestic crisis - moving troops and supplies on the ground would be too important an activity to curtail just to land planes. The U.S. is riddled with any number of small, private airfields that could be pressed into service if the need arose, with that need being dependent on some foreign power having first knocked out an almost uncountable number of major airports plus those airstrips on military bases, not to mention the American fleet of aircraft carriers. Folks who commit to believing this crazy notion of highways doubling by design as airstrips are letting the romance of a "cool fact" blind them to what their common sense should be blinking at them in bright neon letters.
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either.
Hence: 1929 Deutsche Autobahn
For crying out loud...
I guess someone should just pave a one mile strip of concrete or asphalt here and there.
This is why the Eisenhower Highway System was developed and employed across The United States.
Using highways as landing sites is old hat. Cuba has miles of Russian built highway sections specifically for that purpose. I’ve seen them.
💯...but this was the first time the AC-130J did it.
How about adding a pallet of Rapid Dragon for deployment out the rear cargo ramp?
A normal C-130 definitely has room for some Rapid Dragon pallets... But with all the other armaments on an AC-130J... Space/weight might be an issue
Why are we telling details? It defeats the point to plan if we tell the information publicly.
Force posturing. The DoD signals to adversaries all the time what it's working on... Doesn't mean it divulges everything
Send letter to Congress rep
Congratulations.
"unleashed" just earnt you a "do not recommend"
I had a dream Russia was bombing the highways while people still drove on it
Hilarious. They can land on an endless landing strip. Way to go guys. Tax dollars hard at work.
It's Bo-No, not Bon-O
Old news & you're just now reporting on it?
This is why every so many miles you'll see very straight highways before they curve.
Why do people still believe this lie?
Numerous folks swear Interstate highways in the United States must be designed so that one mile in every five is perfectly straight and flat.
According to this whispered bit of facetious lore, if the U.S. ever comes under attack, those straight, flat stretches will be used as landing strips.
Belief in this crazy idea should fail anyone's logic test. It makes no sense to render inoperable the Interstate highway system during times of domestic crisis - moving troops and supplies on the ground would be too important an activity to curtail just to land planes. The U.S. is riddled with any number of small, private airfields that could be pressed into service if the need arose, with that need being dependent on some foreign power having first knocked out an almost uncountable number of major airports plus those airstrips on military bases, not to mention the American fleet of aircraft carriers. Folks who commit to believing this crazy notion of highways doubling by design as airstrips are letting the romance of a "cool fact" blind them to what their common sense should be blinking at them in bright neon letters.
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure and the FHA's unofficial historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law that authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways"). At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it's part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be laid out. The act did not, however, contain any "one-in-five" requirement, nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later legislation either.
Seems like a great opportunity to target location to land in China.
That’s why the interstate was built in the first place there is sections of highway that are straight for a reason so they become runways dumb dumb
Yes, and this is the first time an AC-130J made use of those features.
What so great about landing on a highway?
all countries do this all over europe east asia etc..why numbers are on the hightways
Is this for China or us?
America fck yea… this shit wouldn’t be happening with Trump in office.