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Old 07-22-2007, 04:48 PM  
notabook
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Originally Posted by pornguy View Post
IM not sure how far this plan was carried out, But I believe Roosevelt passed a law that ordered every state that had highways under construction, to build them with every X number of miles completely straight. So in the event of a war time emergency, they could land aircraft on the road ways. So at least in the US, they have a place to land some of those.


Not sure where I read that, or when.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/airstrip.asp
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