Which are the longest runways in Fs?

[717-200]

I was just curious which airports had the longest runways. I'm thinking all 14,000ft+ runways would likely be found in Europe...But I don't
really know. My curiosity comes from (unsuccessfully) trying to take off in a Lockheed super constilation on 2 engines...I'm convinced that if I had
another 4000ft of runway, I would have made it....I'll keep trying on a 12,000 footer...but It would help to have a longer runway. Thanks ya'll !

Merry Christmas!!

[Ryanamur]

WOW! Usually 12'000 is enough for almost anything! Maybe you should upgrade to the 4 engine version!

[Dutch64]

Ulyanowsk-Wostochny International (UWLW) in Russia, over 16000 ft (5km) . In USA i think it's Edwards AFB, but in fact it's only 15000 but there
seems to be a lakebed which some ppl like to add up too
(I read this info some time ago in another forum so not sure it's really the longest but well....)

[olseric]

Edwards AFB

Correct. It's called Roger's Lakebed and the longest runway, 4/22, is about 25000 ft long when you add up the
pavement with the salt
flat:

http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0513/00500...AKEBED.PDF

If you want hard pavement, Vandeberg AFB (KVBG) in California has 15000' of pavement with 1000' overruns on
either end.

[Ryanamur]

olseric wrote:

Edwards AFB

Correct. It's called Roger's Lakebed and the longest runway, 4/22, is about 25000 ft long when you add up the pavement with the salt
flat:

http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0513/00500...AKEBED.PDF

Yep, but use 17/35, it's over 39'000 ft long and 900 ft wide!

[Sovek]

the longest paved runway is in Florida I belive, the space shuttle landing facility.

[pagir]

I checked the "piste Concorde" at Toulouse Blagnac (33L/15R), but it's only 11 482 ft long. I thought it was longer...

The Groom Lake ("Area 51") main runway (14/32) is about 27 000 feet long.

(BTW, I found this interesting site about Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields. Really interesting!
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm

Pagir



Post Edited ( 12-22-05 16:23 )

[WBHoenig]

Sovek wrote:
the longest paved runway is in Florida I belive, the space shuttle landing facility.

I thought this, too. I think it's around 16K feet long. Compared to these, that's a couple of inches!

[pdjpeter]

do highways count lol:P its possible to land

[pagir]

WBHoenig wrote:

Sovek wrote:
the longest paved runway is in Florida I belive, the space shuttle landing facility.

I thought this, too. I think it's around 16K feet long. Compared to these, that's a couple of inches!

With the overrun, it's 17K long (15K without). So "around 16K" is perfectly true

http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/nasaf...nt3slf.htm

Pagir

[Sovek]

I thought they were 20,000+? I'll go check.

[WBHoenig]

pdjpeter wrote:
do highways count lol:P its possible to land

Land on the Autobahn. Or a deadly stretch of Interstate 35 between here (Austin) and San Antonio.

[SWAFO]

Here in ABQ we have a runway over 13,000. We're at higher elevation, and as such we need more takeoff distance. The air's THIN up
here!

[Jetsim]

Sovek wrote:
the longest paved runway is in Florida I belive, the space shuttle landing facility.

I don't think it is
http://www.vc10.com/

[Full_Throttle0]

If you need to make an emergency landing pause the game, disable (set to 0%) autogen and land in a desert.

Or you could make an airport with afcad2 with runways that are 99,999ft x 999ft.



Post Edited ( 01-17-06 02:42 )