On 30 July 2013 13:58, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We had a US30 Dragway west of York, PA that was also the airport
> runway. It felt odd flaring for touchdown with grandstands to either side.
> It an airplane needed to land during an event they would hold the cars and
> you just landed long. Pretty strange.
>
Such landings are not always planned - I'm reminded of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Which is almost topical again:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/07/23/mb-gimli-glider-pilot-revisits-air-strip-winnipeg.html
Love the old dragstrip photo too. For some reason it reminds me of the
opening of the Moody Blues album "In Search of the Lost Chord" ;)
Ian
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