Watch a Fighter Jet Take Off From a Freeway

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Would've like to seen it taxi into position, AND LAND! Otherwise, seemed more like a sales video or something. Not as interesting as I had hoped.

Not worth watching. Waste of time.

LOL - looks like the top brass is like me= childish.... if I ran the air force we would all do stuff like this, and play with pastique, and dry ice bombs, LOL what a riot

Viper 23, turn west on Alpha, right on Charlie, take a left onto cedar avenue and then cleared for taxi on route 55w

WHAT A RIOT - I love it :)

If you did that in the US, there would be 100000000 conspiracy theorists saying that the end is near, and that the government is planning to use afterburners to kill drivers or something idiotic like that.

obe of the best

They know we will bomb their airports first, probably pretty soon too.

How about the landing on highway?

Was Dennis Rodmaan at the controls?

Excellent Video.. WOW, Would not had expected that...

Several of the shots were not of the plane that took off from the road. That one was a 2 seater with two men. There are a couple of shots that was of a single seater.

STOL was one of the requirements the Swedes made for Saab when building their aircraft.

This has been happening in Europe for years. I remember turning parts of the Autobahn into runways in the 1970s. You know, Cold War, Soviets and whatnot.

I like how gingerly the lineman removed the covers and safety from the Missle. Makes me think a large bug smash might set it off. Can't be....

Two different airplanes, the first ground shots were of an F/A-18 D (2 seater) and the hwy takeoff was a single seat F/A-18C model.
The wingtip missle was an AIM-9 training round so it was inert.

ROC air force landing and take off from highway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTxZRYFlVU8

first part with the 2 seater was at an airport, the markers can be seen when plane is moving.

As a training exercise my instructor would declare an engine failure and I was expected to go through the restart procedures while looking for a place to set down. One time he let the simulated failure go all the way. I touched down on the New Jersey Turnpike western spur, a mile or so south of the tolls near the Meadowlands Sports Complex. That section of the highway was not yet open in 1969.

About the recent Bronx landing. I know the road very well. It's amazing he landed there even with no auto traffic. I think he was trying for Van Cortland park, a big field, but came up short and took the Deegan Hwy which was already under him. Not an easy decision.

This is nothing new. The US Interstate highway system has a requirement that one mile out of every four be straight and free of non-removable overpasses and other structures. The primary purpose of the entire Interstate system is not to get you to work in the morning, or to deliver your Cocoa Puffs from the mill to the supermarket, it's to facilitate the rapid movement of military traffic in times of crisis, and as runways for military aircraft.

When the American Eisenhower interstate system was constructed it was a specific requirement that one in every five of the 46,837 miles of road had to be kept perfectly straight. The idea was that during times of war the roads could be used as emergency runways, negating the need for more airports.