Posted on 03/12/2014 10:17:35 PM PDT by kristinn
What if the plane landed in a long highway in a remote area and was refueled and took off again.
One of Clint Eastwood’s best movies was Fire Fox. Clint stole a top secret USSR plane and flew it to the Artic and then to an ally country.
He landed on the Artic ice and was refueled by one of our nuke submarines. Then, he took off again.
No need for a nuke sub on a remote road on a desert plain or in a jungle. You would only need a tanker truck with jet fuel.
Not possible to take off again unless it landed on an actual runway made of reinforced concrete able to handle a heavy jetliner. Even if it landed on a stretch of “interstate highway,” it would wreck the cement and not be able to take off. It could semi-crash land on a road, but it would remain there forever. The runways that are long enough and strong enough for a 777 to land and take off from are all known.
Thanks for your feedback.
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