I hope that Coach Edsall moves

[Adios]

Not to forget, the longest two runways were actively used up to 1999. They used to bring in 747's, 767's, F-15, F-14's, F-18's and F-16's in for air shows. I have been trying to locate the runway length, but it was at least 1.5 miles. Maybe more.

 

[RSTuthill]

Yeah, the top map is old. The 4/22 runway extended all the way to Brewer at the bottom and all the way to Silver Lane at the top. Probably well over 6,000 feet. Yet that is a bit short of 1.5 miles. I flew out of Rentschler many times on business to the PW airport at WPB out at the plant on the Beeline.

Looks like the new engineering building is well started.

 

[Adios]

Yeah, the top map is old. The 4/22 runway extended all the way to Brewer at the bottom and all the way to Silver Lane at the top. Probably well over 6,000 feet. Yet that is a bit short of 1.5 miles. I flew out of Rentschler many times on business to the PW airport at WPB out at the plant on the Beeline.

Looks like the new engineering building is well started.

The extension you mentioned does show in the photography. You won't find the lengths on the internet. That would require checking actual material. This stuff would be good to know. The runways are incorporated into the design of the roads/parking lots in what is developing there.

 

[RSTuthill]

I once watched on a late Monday morning as two airshow F-15s taxied with their canopies raised down to the end of runway 4 by the Engineering parking lot. Most of Engineering was out there pressing our noses against the fence as we had friends in the tower who had given us the heads up. They made the turn to face NW, lowered their canopies, snapped off simultaneous salutes to the Engineering crowd, went to full AB on -100 engines, let the brakes off and took off simultaneously. It was EXTREMELY loud. They climbed to a couple hundred feet only, made a U-turn and came back down the runway at about 50 ft. When they got almost to us, they snapped the stick back and climbed vertically under full AB to about 10,000 feet. That is how they left. What a show!!!

 

[TheDrifter75]

I once watched on a late Monday morning as two airshow F-15s taxied with their canopies raised down to the end of runway 4 by the Engineering parking lot. Most of Engineering was out there pressing our noses against the fence as we had friends in the tower who had given us the heads up. They made the turn to face NW, lowered their canopies, snapped off simultaneous salutes to the Engineering crowd, went to full AB on -100 engines, let the brakes off and took off simultaneously. It was EXTREMELY loud. They climbed to a couple hundred feet only, made a U-turn and came back down the runway at about 50 ft. When they got almost to us, they snapped the stick back and climbed vertically under full AB to about 10,000 feet. That is how they left. What a show!!!

That would be a blast.

 

[RSTuthill]

I once watched on a late Monday morning as two airshow F-15s taxied with their canopies raised down to the end of runway 4 by the Engineering parking lot. Most of Engineering was out there pressing our noses against the fence as we had friends in the tower who had given us the heads up. They made the turn to face NW, lowered their canopies, snapped off simultaneous salutes to the Engineering crowd, went to full AB on -100 engines, let the brakes off and took off simultaneously. It was EXTREMELY loud. They climbed to a couple hundred feet only, made a U-turn and came back down the runway at about 50 ft. When they got almost to us, they snapped the stick back and climbed vertically under full AB to about 10,000 feet. That is how they left. What a show!!!

Of course during the airshow on the weekend, -14 was pretty impressive too. It made a subsonic pass from S to N with the supersonic bubble over the wings and fuselage showing as condensed fog. As it approached the north boundary it turned on edge with the wings rotated fully forward and made a full 360 turn within the boundaries of the airport. Engines for that aircraft were TF30-P100s.