Road as runway in Singapore.
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Road as runway in Singapore.
Some other boards focussed on the F-16s flying from roads in a recent SingAF exercise, but I prefer this one...
Alert 5 - Military Aviation News: Grumman E-2C makes last take off and landing on a road
More vidshttp://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...D9DAE4587EEF47
and pics
Alert 5 Gallery :: Exercise Torrent 2008
Alert 5 - Military Aviation News: Grumman E-2C makes last take off and landing on a road
More vidshttp://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...D9DAE4587EEF47
and pics
Alert 5 Gallery :: Exercise Torrent 2008
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The video looks like the road strip just to the west of the base at Tengah.
There is another road/runway, approx06/24, about 3k SW of the threshold for 02L at Changi,
its on the East Coast Parkway, runs for just over 7000', has removal planter boxes in the centre, and unless the palm trees either side fold down like in the Thunderbirds movie, it looks like they deliberately planted soft trunked palms so the chainsaw gang would not have to break into too much of a Singapore sweat. Dont believe this one has been used for many many years now due to prox with the civil airport and the volume of the East Coast Parkway vehicle traffic.
There is another road/runway, approx06/24, about 3k SW of the threshold for 02L at Changi,
its on the East Coast Parkway, runs for just over 7000', has removal planter boxes in the centre, and unless the palm trees either side fold down like in the Thunderbirds movie, it looks like they deliberately planted soft trunked palms so the chainsaw gang would not have to break into too much of a Singapore sweat. Dont believe this one has been used for many many years now due to prox with the civil airport and the volume of the East Coast Parkway vehicle traffic.
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The Yankee Marines had (have??) a far more interesting road than that, which was used for AV8 ops. Lyman Road at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina was just wide enough for the outriggers on the 8B and, being in NC, was surrounded by pine trees which made it 'interesting' during an RVL when the wind you'd factored in suddenly disappeared below the tree tops. I'm sure most Harrier mates will remember Larry from The Movie. 'Nozzles Larry, nozzles Larry, eject Larry'....shame he didn't listen to the LSS 
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How smart - if I've got this right. 
Tengah, One main runway, two parallel taxiways each with QRA pans at both ends, and then Lim Chu Kang Road marked, as another runway. I see Charlie's Watch Shop and the Kimo stalls have gone.
Tengah, One main runway, two parallel taxiways each with QRA pans at both ends, and then Lim Chu Kang Road marked, as another runway. I see Charlie's Watch Shop and the Kimo stalls have gone.
When I lived in Singapore I worked in Tuas and was told that the roads around that area were all designed to be able to be used as runways. I used to like driving home down the PIE and A4's would fly over the road just before landing. First time it happened 'interested' me.
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In the 80s I was quite surprised to see Royal Jordanian students flying around with 1948 topos. When back in UK on leave I purchased some topos that covered the area (H7s I think). Students loved them. After a fortnight the word came down forcibly from a little man that the charts could not be used as they showed secret airfields, like any airfield plus the widened main roads that could be used for an airfield. Back to the 1948s.
