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fuzzythinker
73 days ago
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UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport
Or a ramp with "one-way teeth" that stops it with gravity and stops it from sliding back down with teeth.
kijin
73 days ago
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The ramp will need to be very long and very high in order to absorb the momentum of a fully loaded widebody jet. Not something that you'd want near a runway where planes can land in either direction.
hshdhdhehd
73 days ago
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The plane is fast and heavy.
potato3732842
73 days ago
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And fragile and will go splat if you try and do anything approaching a runaway truck ramp to it.
hshdhdhehd
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linehedonist's comment is an idea that is shown to work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_materials_arrestor_...
nedrylandJP
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Sounds like a much more substantial runaway truck ramp
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