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Thrust Reversal Explained: How It Helps Aircraft Stop Safely

Pilot Institute

If the runway is contaminated with water, ice, or oil, the wheel may simply skid over the surface instead of gripping it. The extra stopping power is useful for landing on short runways and in adverse conditions. Even if you could package it, the jetblast would hit the wings, flaps, and runway straight on. Barts Island.

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The Smith Family de Havilland Mosquito and its link to RAF East Fortune

Vintage Aviation News

Photo by Grant Newman With the outbreak of war in 1939, East Fortune was requisitioned by the Air Ministry for development and by 1941, three concrete runways, three maintenance hangars and off site accommodation had been constructed to house an influx of aircraft and personnel for its wartime role. Note the camouflaged concrete runways.