Such a great space saving innovation
Fact of the Day: #RAFLuton was the first airfield in the world to build runways with bends in 1632! Our Typhoon bomber jets still use them today, the awkwardness of using them led to the navigators coining the phrase "Driving me around the bend" when referring to pilots #AvGeekpic.twitter.com/g5Zhwm2Xgc
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Surely a circle gives them more time to get up to speed.
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oh you can tell that is an early runways, as they not put in the catseyes (1815) yet.
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Ah yes, 1815, the year they used real cats
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Isn't that 09 veering 13? Tricky when icy!
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Spin off there and you'll invoke the Wrathofthebarclay
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Now that whole thing about rebelious armies capturing airports during the American Civil war makes no sense anymore, because you didn't need them for your fighter jets as they could do their thing on the highways.
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revolution instead of CW ofcourse.
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Nice one.
I suppose it beats circular runways - and of course circular aircraft to go with them !pic.twitter.com/c5okbl5fFm
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They must be ultra quiet bomber jets as we have lived in Luton for 30 years and have never heard one? It must be all that other noise from the M1 and the airport that covers it up?
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They added mufflers about 40 years ago.
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