Calif Bill bmckee=at-ix.netcom.com wrote:

The landing strips were part of the orginal spec. But put the landing
strips in the context of 1952. You did not have C-5's and F18's. Other
than F-86, it was mostly prop and C-130 cargo planes, with a lot of C47's.

I'll believe a C-47, but you don't want to see a C-130 landing on a
highway. Let alone a B-36. I have seen C-130s land on improvised strips
before and the strip was usually not the same afterward. Admittedly some
of this was due to SOME pilots who crab the nosewheel on landing.

I'm not sure that I believe the claim of the highway being designed as
an alternate landing facility, but it's certainly been used as one
many times since it was built.
--scott
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