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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 57,089
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Airplane burnouts, not exactly, but cleaning rubber off runways
This is something that I've never heard about. It's fairly obvious based on the skid marks on the runways, but very interesting.
According to the video, each tire leaves ~1.5# of rubber on the runway at each landing. On average a plane has ~8 tires, so each landing deposits ~12# per landing. An Airbus A380 has 22 tires so leaves over 30# of rubber per landing. According to the video, JFK airport gets ~13,000# of rubber deposited every day.
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
Last edited by masraum; 08-10-2025 at 07:35 AM..
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