Artificial Turf Runway

Nope. It's artifical. It's the only thing that is green on the airfield
right now. Very very dry spring this year on the fonrt range.

John Scott

"kirk.stant" wrote in message
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On Friday, March 23, 2012 11:41:10 AM UTC-5, tomcatvf51 wrote:
US Air Force Academy has installed an artificial turf landing area for
glider ops.

The way I read it, it's a natural Turf runway, replacing the natural high
desert grass. That's totally different than an artificial turf runway!

So it's fundamentally the same as a football field. Sounds like a good
idea, since the natural grasses in that part of the world aren't the
softest. I would think the protection from rocks, etc would help the
maintenance load on the new DGs a lot. These gliders aren't just flown once
a week - they get used A LOT!

And probably a lot cheaper than a paved runway, which would have been the
Army's approach... ;^)

Go Falcons!

Kirk
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