A SIMPLE ARREST SYSTEM

Commercial airports just won't learn and so we have the Air France Flight 358 runway overrun. When I served in the U.S. Air Force, at every Strategic Air Command base that I was stationed, the runways were equipped with a simple aircraft arrest system. It consisted of two huge anchor chains on both...

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