Really long runways?

[rtripp]

Does anybody know of some very long runways at US airports? I'm talking about 13,000' and up. I know of Rwy 4 at KEDW which is around 15,000'.

 

[crashcrew]

JFK Runway 31L/13R is 14,572

http://www.naco.faa.gov/content/naco/online/airportdiagrams/00610AD.PDF

 

[Starion]

Runway 4/22 at Edwards Airforce base is 15,013 long.

Most of the civilian airpots have runways that are between 8 to 11 thousand feet long.

I did not know that the John F Kennedy International Airport has a very long runway.

 

[crashcrew]

Yes, as noted above, in addition to 31L/13R, R/W 31R/13L is 10,000'.

R/W 4L/22R is 11,351' and R/W 4R/22L is 8400'.

 

[KR4BD]

Colorado Springs Airport (COS) which shares with an Air Force Base has runways in excess of 13,000'.

See:


http://www.springsgov.com/AirportPage.asp?PageID=4671

 

[safetyobc]

MMMM, Area 51 is reported to have the longest runway in the world...
http://www.area51zone.com/structures.shtml#runway :lol:

 

[EMSdtw]

Runway 16R/34L at Denver International Airport is the longest paved public runway in the U.S., measuring 16,000 feet long.

 

[rtripp]

Thanks, guys. I didn't know there were so many long runways. Also, does anybody know where the space shuttle lands, runway headings, and length?

 

[abqscan]

Thanks, guys. I didn't know there were so many long runways. Also, does anybody know where the space shuttle lands, runway headings, and length?

White Sands Space Harbor

The Runways
In 1976, NASA selected Northrup Strip as the site for shuttle pilot training. A second runway was added crossing the original north-south landing strip, and in 1979 both lakebed runways were lengthened to 35,000 ft (10,668 m), :shock: which includes 15,000 ft (4,572 m) usable runway with 10,000 ft (3048 m) extensions on either end, to allow the White Sands Space Harbor (WSSH) to serve as shuttle backup landing facility.

The hard-packed gypsum strip provides what the shuttle needed in the early landings and under emergency situations: a long, forgiving runway. The north-south runway is configured to simulate the runway at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, while the east-west runway simulates the lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California. In 1987, a third, shorter runway was constructed to simulate the transatlantic abort landing site at Ben Guerir, Morocco, and is used to simulate training at Moron, Spain and Banjul, The Gambia.


Erik

 

[n4voxgill]

Orlando McCoy (MCO) orginally had 2 15,000 foot runways. This was a SAC base and the B52 didn't need runways that long, the KC135 did. The base was turned into a civilian base, the runways were cut back to 12,000 ft. The long runways just take up valuable land and are needed by any plane. During the cold war, McCoy had both U2 and SR71. They didn't much runway to take off, but the U2 had a long rollout on landing. Watching the U2 land was something. When they take off half of the landing gear is left on the ground. When they land, two trucks had to catch up to it and airmen in the truck had to hold the wings up while they came to halt. Then the wing wheels would be reconnected.

Two additional 9,000 are open and two more under construction. This will give the airport 6 parallel runways

The airport is a desinated emergency landing strip for the shuttle.

 

[nd5y]

Sheppard AFB, Dyess AFB and Altus AFB all have over 13000' runways
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KSPS
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLTS
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KDYS

I didn't realize Altus & Dyess did until I looked them up just now.

 

[TongSlinger]

Don't forget kcsm 17R/35L


http://www.aopa.org/asf/publication...port_diagrams/00778AD.PDF&AirportID=14931

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/157/1

 

[twolf816]

and the NASA Shuttle Landing Facility

http://airnav.com/airport/KTTS[/url]

 

[experimental_pilot]

Zhukovsky Test Center, Russia.

 

[crayon]

Runway 16R/34L at Denver International Airport is the longest paved public runway in the U.S., measuring 16,000 feet long.

A lumbering heavy will prob need every inch of it when the DA starts climbing ...

CSM is another old Buff base in the 13k club. Almost in the middle of no-where.

 

[b7spectra]

Ulyanovsk-Vostochny International Airport (Russia) at 16,404ft

 

[mn2deep]

Clinton-Sherman Airport...formerly Clinton-Sherman AFB has a main runway 13,503 feet long

The airport is also known as Oklahoma Spaceport and a company has taken up residence there promising space flights ( up to 330,000 ft) beginning in 2007.

I did some touch and go work there once and I could get in several T&Gs before turning crosswind. Also, the tarmac on the east side of the airport is so vast (they used to park B-52s there) it is a perfect place for a new student to learn to taxi.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KCSM

http://www.rocketplane.com/spaceport/spaceport.html

 

[jeff]

Hunter Army Airfield formerly Hunter AFB in Savannah, GA 15,000'

 

[crayon]

Clinton-Sherman Airport...formerly Clinton-Sherman AFB has a main runway 13,503 feet long

Couldn't have said it better myself .. :roll:

 

[Mozilla]

Lon runways

Anderson Air Force Base, Guam Dual two mile long runways.... in the 60s-early 70s was home to a large contingent of major aircraft including the the ARC Light and LINEBACKER campaigns during the Vietnam conflict... Still has quite a collection of units and contains the B-52 memorial.