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Old 10th Mar 2014, 13:30
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Wageslave
 
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Also, it would be all but impossible to produce enough foam fast enough (at 130+Kts touchdown speed) for it to have any affect.

At those speeds foam would be airborne in tiny pieces along with any atomised fuel, not stuck to a runway like a carpet.

Modern thinking is that foam carpets;
a)serve no useful purpose

and

b)cannot be placed even by multiple ground vehicles in the right place. it is impossible from a practical point of view to foam an entire runway, just as it is to guess on which part of it (or off it) the aircraft will stop.

Sorry.

A GPS marker which is ejected from an aircraft as it hits / just before it hits the sea.
N Sea Helos have had something similar for decades.
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