Bucky wrote:
R: OK, I know I'm testing your patience here. One last time for our
listeners: you are NOT foaming the runway?
F: No, we are not foaming the runway.
R: Hmm, I must have watched too many Bruce Willis movies.

delurk and hallo

Here's a nice foamy runway: http://www.bywat.co.uk/manston.html . But I
see from

http://www.boeing.com/assocproducts/...quirements.pdf

that this sort of thing is no longer fashionable and anyway was mostly
military.

But I expect you know all this. I'm posting because I did have some
memory of a more recent civil airliner landing on a foamed runway...
hmm, well, this isn't it but Wikipedia mentions a Vietnam Airlines
incident: "29 October 2004: The nose gear of an Airbus A321 failed to
deploy prior to landing at Hanoi. The aircraft declared an emergency
and landed without the nose gear on a runway lined with foam." Dunno if
there is any accuracy to this.

Anyway.

What's my justification for posting anything here? Not much: I'm not a
pilot (though my father was; RAF in the war (Liberators in Coastal
Command) and airlines after (Hermes to 707)).

And as a minor matter of passing historical interest, our guest young
bachelor at Christmas for some years in the early 60s was Ian Whittle
(son of Sir Frank), a flying colleague of my father's in Kuwait
Airways, and who spoke at his funeral last year. They first flew
together on a DC-3 out of Beirut in 1958. Prior to that, Ian had flown
Vampires with the RAF, iirc, and he ended his career on 747s for Cathay
Pacific.

And he gave me a pogo stick one Christmas.

Cheers!
relurk
--
Nick