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Swiss fighter jets take off and land on motorway (swissinfo.ch)
4 points by latonz 742 days ago
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This was a hack because —although Saab has a design criterion of STOL on improvised airstrips— MacDac assumes long runways.

Two nice points:

(a) the mission patch is in the same design as the usual "vignette" required to be displayed when using swiss motorways: https://www.zofingertagblatt.ch/uploads/2024/06/fe1e8a41-fb3...

(b) almost all the army personnel involved were militia, called up for a few week refresher course.

EDIT: whether in a Citroën 2CV or a MacDac ~(100'000 with afterburner)? cv, one should have a current motorway vignette: https://www.zofingertagblatt.ch/uploads/2024/06/fe1e8a41-fb3...