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Published: 2014-02-07 16:33:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 590; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 1
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Updated 02/11/2014
I thought itd be cool, and needed new wallpaper.
Ill make more versions of this with more planes, later
Runway: B36, B58, F4, F117
Taxiway Left: F4, AV8
Taxiway Right: C17
All done in Sketchup (some in tremble, some in SU8, whole thing in Tremble)
B-36 © Convair
B-58 © Convair
F-4 © McDonnell Douglas
AV-8 © McDonnell Douglas
F-117 © Lockheed
C-17 © Boeing
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Comments: 2
This airport has the worst air traffic controller in history!
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XD, Naaaa, I mean, once an ATC at LAX cleared a jumbo jet to land on top of another plane...
but the Elephant Walk is an actual maneuver, used when you really need to deploy about 100 planes with in 2 minutes. They Aren't really taking off, but taxing, I just liked the space of the runway for the look. It got its name because much like elephants in the wild the planes are moving out nose-to-tail, much like we see here. and even side by side when it comes to small planes (yes then can take off side by side like this). It is actually possible for them to all go from this runway if you delay each planes takeoff by 10 seconds or so.
Good video of B52s performing an EW and takeoff; www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ7niL…
Wiki Page; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant…)
Nother page on it; www.349amw.afrc.af.mil/news/st…
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