Mountain Empire Airport near Marion/Wytheville, VA.
https://img.airnav.com/ap/03892.jpg?v=MAI355
There's a 55 foot rise in approximately 1/2 of its 5252 ft length.
Bob
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Mountain Empire Airport near Marion/Wytheville, VA.
https://img.airnav.com/ap/03892.jpg?v=MAI355
There's a 55 foot rise in approximately 1/2 of its 5252 ft length.
Bob
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I'm not sure that the marker is a "mile marker" it could be a marker to mark the taxi-way? There are plenty of runways here in the U.K. on an incline.
I've seen plenty of runways on inclines, including a ~3300 ft one in Vietnam with one end 91 feet higher than the other. What I haven't seen, ever, is a stone or concrete marker near a runway or taxiway.
The taxi-ways must have been marked by some method for night fighter use and presumably lights were not used for obvious reasons in Germany, especially in the latter part of WW2. The large dip next to the marker could be a "historic" bomb crater that has not been filled in fully which sometimes they weren't. There is an airfield near here where I live which is now a privately owned airfield but was a RAF airfield which still has, in 2016, bomb craters in nearby farmland caused by German bombs in WW2.
Bristol-Filton? I was looking for craters but couldn't see them...Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk