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To: Blueflag

Whidbey Island has 2- 7,700 foot crosswind runways. I did extensive engineering review of the pavements there back in the 90’s. The EA6 crews took off and landed on half the length of the runways. The old P-3’s used not much more than that.

By comparison, When I worked at Klamath Falls Airport, the Oregon Air Guard used practically every inch of the 10,300 foot runway to conduct F-15 flight ops.


58 posted on 12/04/2023 9:07:08 AM PST by shotgun
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To: shotgun

Air Force pilots are notorious for using all of the available runway.

Navy pilots not so much.


67 posted on 12/04/2023 10:16:24 AM PST by Laslo Fripp (Semper Fidelis)
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