F-100 "zero-length launch":
The program was played with by the Air Force, the Soviets and the Germans, but all abandoned the concept. The obvious reasons were that it would not be feasible to have a lot of pilots and fighters assigned to it without affecting the numbers available for regular tasks and, of course, they still needed a functioning runway to land at.
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Dear Miss Fit:
How's this for scary: the program as originally conceived called for the boosted takeoff and a zero-length landing on an inflatable mat! (We don' need no steenkin' runway.)
Sone details HERE.
Regards,
Frank
I forget whether this was done before they had zero-zero ejection seats. The takeoff was never my favorite part of a flight. I can't imagine how this felt.
Before, I think. The zero-zero ejection seats came along in the early `60s, if what I've read about M-B is to be believed.
Love how the F-100 pilot does a roll after takeoff, as if to celebrate living through the launch.
I think the Swedes' idea of using designated stretches of highway as emergency runways made more sense.
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