Leeds Bradford - General Thread

In one of the LBA handbooks from the 1980s or early 1990s, there was a full feature about the runway surface being diamond-grooved after the runway was extended. I recall it saying that after many years of use, it became necessary to diamond-groove the runway to maintain good braking action, which was then regarded as the best achievable on a concrete runway. The feature was referring to the time around when the runway was extended so it was an inaccurate of the YouTuber to assume the old runway had its grip warn away.

It was a good video and I enjoyed it. It has been a good discussion in the end.

Interestingly according to Google AI a dry groved concrete runway has the best possible grip of any available runway surface but when wet a grooved asphalt runway becomes better. (subject to possible errors from AI)

If anyone has a copy of the LBA handbooks from that era, perhaps you can check and see how good my memory is?

From what I can remember, the RAF did several wet weather landings with one of their Tri Stars, to check the runway. I seem to also remember that the runway was 're-grooved' not long after the incident.
Very interesting video and well worth watching

LsS27 said:

From what I can remember, the RAF did several wet weather landings with one of their Tri Stars, to check the runway. I seem to also remember that the runway was 're-grooved' not long after the incident.
Very interesting video and well worth watching

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Well I was referring to regrooving at the time when the runway was extended not after the incident but I could be wrong.

LsS27 said:

From what I can remember, the RAF did several wet weather landings with one of their Tri Stars, to check the runway. I seem to also remember that the runway was 're-grooved' not long after the incident.
Very interesting video and well worth watching

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Definitely regrooved after the incident. I suspect that the extension was done when built and the original 1965 runway re-grooved after the Tristar incident. The Tristar of course didnt touch the extension so was reliant on what was entirely the original runway.

Happy pride month to everyone on this Forum, queer or not!

Pride is all about diversity and inclusion. I therefore urge all airlines, be it easyJet, Ryanair, Eurowings, whoever, to partake in the pride spirit and be inclusive of LBA in any new network expansions. Also I fully support KLM if they decide to transition from Cityhopper to their mainline services.

After all, I always take pride in my local airport. I think we can all agree nothing would be better than a rainbow of aircraft tails on our apron.

Now THIS is the woke agenda I’m fighting for!

YorkshireLad said:

Happy pride month to everyone on this Forum, queer or not!

Pride is all about diversity and inclusion. I therefore urge all airlines, be it easyJet, Ryanair, Eurowings, whoever, to partake in the pride spirit and be inclusive of LBA in any new network expansions. Also I fully support KLM if they decide to transition from Cityhopper to their mainline services.

After all, I always take pride in my local airport. I think we can all agree nothing would be better than a rainbow of aircraft tails on our apron.

Now THIS is the woke agenda I’m fighting for!

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Flipping heck thats a bit full on! And i thought i was the only gay in the room!

LBA4EVER said:

Flipping heck thats a bit full on! And i thought i was the only gay in the room!

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Shows how little Britain is then!

YorkshireLad said:

Happy pride month to everyone on this Forum, queer or not!

Pride is all about diversity and inclusion. I therefore urge all airlines, be it easyJet, Ryanair, Eurowings, whoever, to partake in the pride spirit and be inclusive of LBA in any new network expansions. Also I fully support KLM if they decide to transition from Cityhopper to their mainline services.

After all, I always take pride in my local airport. I think we can all agree nothing would be better than a rainbow of aircraft tails on our apron.

Now THIS is the woke agenda I’m fighting for!

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God pride måned- happy pride month YorkshireLad