"Ben Hallert" wrote in message
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Ooh, interesting question. I'm also curious about this, what kind of
surface does the airport have? How long?

It's very hard-packed dry clay...generally, flat as a pool table and about
as hard. Runway length is not a factor. It more or less stretches to the
horizon.

One thing, any plane parked on the Playa would need lots of protection
against the fine dust and high winds, I bet it could craze
plexi-screens pretty quickly.

There's a Burning Man aviator forum you would want to talk to about it, but
they know the tricks. There are planes there that fly daily year after
year.

Do not be swayed by the myth that everybody there are naked hippies on
drugs. (Hippies, as I like to tell people, don't drive around in jacked up
Road Warrior trucks shooting flamethrowers into the air.)

-c