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Old 26th Jul 2015, 19:45
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Lyneham Lad
 
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Originally Posted by bingofuel
I have a vague memory that in the 1960's the RAF tried a similar technique to de-ice runways, and mounted an old jet turbine on the back of a truck angled slightly down and drove along hopefully melting the snow and ice from the runway and blowing it away.
Can anyone shed any further light on this?
Really? Gosh, fancy that...

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