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Or a ramp with "one-way teeth" that stops it with gravity and stops it from sliding back down with teeth.
by fuzzythinker 11mo ago
Or a ramp with "one-way teeth" that stops it with gravity and stops it from sliding back down with teeth.
- kijin 11mo agoThe 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 11mo agoThe plane is fast and heavy.
- potato3732842 11mo agoAnd fragile and will go splat if you try and do anything approaching a runaway truck ramp to it.
- nedrylandJP 11mo agoSounds like a much more substantial runaway truck ramp
- hshdhdhehd 11mo agolinehedonist's comment is an idea that is shown to work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_materials_arrestor_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_materials_arrestor_...