Watch out for traffic, overpasses, overhead signs and the median!
What plane is small enough to land on a highway?
The Interstate Highway system was originally built to facilitate movement of defense materiel. I imagine that the designers contemplated aircraft landing on them.
A bit of history: The interstate highway system was designed in many areas to serve as emergency airstrips in case of what looked at the time of nuclear attack from the Soviets.
IIRC, distance between over passes and such was regulated to produce useable runways.
“The Interstate Highway system was originally built to facilitate movement of defense materiel. I imagine that the designers contemplated aircraft landing on them.”
In every area where the terrain allows it, one mile of every five on interstate highways is completely straight for that very reason.
One mile was plenty for while. Of course it still works for many, if needed.
There’s a common myth that one in five miles of the Interstate System is straight so airplanes can land in emergencies. But it’s right up there with the bathtub and missing kidney.