Planes Landing and Take Off from Michigan Highway 32 

Good thing they didn't choose 69 lmfao

Where I live in the northeast my roads have more potholes than the moon has craters our highway infrastructure is so bad a plane couldn’t land on it would rip its gear clean off

True

They found the ONLY road they could test on lol

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Enjoyed watching them take off from air base in Myrtle Beach years ago

Our Scandinavian friends practice landing on roads all the time....it times of war,they can stash their planes all over instead of sitting vulnerable at home. Its a smart thing to do. And yes, love the warthog....vets will tell you stories about them.

How dare you say such things... We fly those engines on our CRJ fleet, they're always eating themselves up

Everyone should have one.

I like to thinks it’s quite the loud national treasure. Brrrrrrrrttt, brrrrrrrrrrtttt.

🤣🤣🤣❤❤❤

I wonder how many 911 calls they got about someone calling saying they think they just saw a military jet crash?

Good one. The A-10 Warthog is my favorite post WWII aircraft.

Wiley coyote, Super Genius

That would've been Lockheed, who fitted them to the Starfighter in the 50's.

@@TyphoonVstrom Err, umm, NO... while the M61 Vulcan *20mm* is a serious auto-cannon, the *30mm* GAU-8 carried by the A-10 is in a whole other league when it comes to armored targets.

Colonel John Boyd, better know for his work to developed the F-16. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)

That's some speed enforcement. Damn!

😅😂🤣😂😅😂🤣😂😅😂🤣

@@Ladyscharm This should be a dedicated Tailgater removal program. Hellfire away !!!

@@jeffreymcdonald8267 😂😅😂🤣😂😅😂🤣😂😅

Hi I’m officer BUUUURRRRTTT can I see your license please 😉

No need, they've seen it all.

We are Farmers.. Bum pa bum bum bum

U S A A

The warthog could also just blow the highway away 😂

Yes yes yes, it could. But the A-10 is on our side, please don't sic it on anything while it is in MICHIGAN!!!

The Warthog gets the the Roadhog.👍

Briliant…LMAO

I was just thinking “This makes sense, Northern Michigan highways are always empty anyways” and then I thought about just that. Perhaps there are some ok spots here and there though. If they claim to be landing on highways in Indiana next though, I don’t know if I could take their word for it.

That is funny!

That's just Detroit. You can literally see the difference in the road as you cross the township lines.

@@mechengineer4894 No, it's not just Detroit. It's Detroit, Flint, Lansing, Wayne County, Oakland County, Macomb County, Genesee County, Livingston County, Ingham County and most of the rest of the state that has any amount of traffic. It's what happens when the Legislature is dominated by "Small Government Republicans" that don't want to spend any money on road maintenance for over 20 years.

@@Naris48 none of those are represented by republican tho

They are the speeders

Michigan State Police. 😃

Lol bright blue in Michigan

Don't forget the 🚨!

In my opinion: A-10, F-22 Raptor, B-2 stealth bomber.

@@jehu1368 P-51 is in there somewhere, otherwise id agree with those 3.

@@coryboy345 Facts

@@jehu1368 the f-35 is pretty amazing too, but stupidly expensive

727

@Inconvenient Truths they do this training all the time. What is rare is doing it where some civilian can get a video.

Open some eyes perhaps?

Here is one from 2016 in Estonia www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/politics/a10-warthog-highway-landing-russia-border-estonia/index.html@Inconvenient Truths and here is a Wikipedia article on the concept en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_strip You don’t see it much in the open like this because there is so much roadway on large military reservations to use for this training. What is exceptional here is that it wasn’t conducted on one of those.

I get that you desperately want this to fit your narrative @Inconvenient Truths. (Wow! I have never said that to someone who I wasn’t sure is a woke progressive before.) The only newsworthy part of this is they used a roadway that is open to the public. If they were doing it with helicopters I doubt it would have made the news. They have done this on the roads out here inside the Nevada and Utah bombing ranges for decades. I have relatives in the Air Force who have bitched about such training going all the way back to the Crome Dome days. Finding the news article you require is not going to happen because practicing this inside a military reservation is not newsworthy.

Roads built on military bases are not structurally different from roads built anywhere else @Inconvenient Truths. You are freaking out over nothing unless you expect Canada to invade through or more likely around Michigan. If you think for example this is training for operations against the citizenry why would they be practicing to operate from unsecured state roads where everyone with a deer rifle can take a shot instead of easily secured airbases and airports? You are exactly like the people freaking out about the Red Dawn exercises in the 1970s and 80s or Jade Helm a few years back.

Please quit calling the A-10 an aircraft ... its a gun that identifies as a plane

They have been trying to get rid of them since the 80's.

The warthog is the only aircraft program that works. How can you make money when your product is unkillable?

A10 has stopped flying well only some have stopped flying them

@@grummanae rude

Brrrrtttt😍

Your favorite until it's used against us... Why would they be practicing landing on streets?

I worked on them for 2 years.

When I was in the Air Guard they were having an A-10 do a flight demonstration for an airshow. A few of my buddies and I had gone to the shooting range on the other side of the base and on the way back we parked our blue Air Force pick-up truck in the middle of an empty field on the other side of the runway from the crowd. We were sitting out there in the middle of the empty field by ourselves waiting for the A-10 to start the demo. When it took of it went into a sharp banking turn and then it leveled out and started coming right at us. It made a high speed pass right over us at about 100 feet and it was going really fast. It then made another sharp turn to line us up again and did another high speed pass right over us. At that point we realized that the A-10 pilot was using our truck as his show center. Eventually he ended up doing 6 high speed passes at low level right over us. We ended up with the best viewing spot for the show and we weren't even planning to be there. Afterwards we found out that the A-10 pilot had spotted our truck sitting in the field as he was taxiing out and that's when he decided to use the truck as his show center point. So we were able to experience what's its like to be attacked by an A-10 and we lived to tell about it.

The other base they are kept at (Martin in Essex MD) is not far from my house and occasionally they fly over the top of my house, beautiful birds.

That is one of those urban myths. Part of it is true, but the plane landing wasn't part of it. It was made to move equipment in case the rail system was attack. The biproduct gave places to land planes, but wasn't design for it.

The Airforce did not think about using the highways as airstrips until later in the Cold War. also you don't need the interstate system to do that simple paved high ways would do that.

@J If that's so, then why do they stick light poles in them?

@@KG-xt4oq Light poles can be unbolted at the base and lowered with minimal effort...

@@MrChickennugget360 The Cold War started when Japan surrendered.

was that in Ramstein?

Was just going to ask same question.. Ktown/ramstein ab. Love those aircraft!

"Where?!?!"

@@kennethschlegel870 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CPnwlNvwBLI.html. The movie was 1941. I was off by a year. Lol!!

I figured, I was completing the scene

@@kennethschlegel870 lol!! Sorry about that. I didn’t remember that. Got it when you told me. I am soooo slow. 😂. Have s good one!

"Who said war nerves!?"

@Fast Cara bruh he's scared so that the planes don't hit the wires

thank you for your service

Wow. Awesome, cool story.

I'll give you a guess.

Standard training.

@@finaloption... Yes before, but things are getting bad in the US.

They do this training for overseas operations where airports can be targeted. Been doing it for decades.

@@flynavy9112 not quite, it was done twice in Germany during the entire period of the Cold War. So not nearly as common as you’re making out it is.

I’m out in LaChine in these warthogs will simulate dog fights over my property. He seem throwing their flares out and taking hard turns and chasing each other it’s pretty cool

@@mykehunt2430 It may not be dog fighting, when A-10's are close to the ground after dropping ordinance they pop flares and maneuver violently to avoid anything coming at them from the ground.

@@endutubecensorship so you're saying they're practicing a bombardment of his area?

@@everythingfeline7367 It could be practice for "danger close" airstrikes. The F.A.C. (forward air controller) is with the group advancing and coordinating strikes close to their position. This is just a guess of course.

@@mykehunt2430 Great story...

According to the Federal Highway Administration, this is a myth. '"One in five miles of the Interstate System is straight so airplanes can land in emergencies." This myth is widespread on the Internet and in reference sources, but has no basis in law, regulation, design manual-or fact. Airplanes occasionally land on Interstates when no alternative is available in an emergency, not because the Interstates are designed for that purpose.'

I am a professional civil/structural engineer and though it may not be officially written in the law - the fact is the interstates were originally designed this way so they could be used as runways if needed. That is no longer the case today, but it was originally.

@Been There Done That sorry, that makes no sense at all. First of all, nobody is invading the continental United States. Let alone Michigan. The United States is not Sweden. We have no system or Logistics to use roadway. There's no ground crew. No fuel trucks. No ammo dumps.

@@shawnpeat while it may be true in in Sweden, not true here. Nobody in the Cold War has had plans of invading Michigan.

@Modoc Jack the idea that the commies are coming to Michigan is ridiculous.

realistically, if another serious traditional war ever happens the a-10 will have to go into production again once we start to loose the slow to build stealth fighter bombers. even if the A-10 gets fully retired, it will almost certainly make a comeback because of how much easier and cheaper it is to manufacture

@@shrededpudding5921 That is the most unrealistic scenario I've ever heard. If we start losing high performance stealth aircraft, what chances does the slow A-10 have? Also the A-10 is not cheaper to manufacture, the cost for gearing up to production would be more then just buying more modern aircraft

Mightve been a war games strategy.

they are not scrapping them, they are getting upgrades.

@@Excitable101 they are now but about 2 or 3 years ago they were seriously thinking about retiring the A-10 since the F35 was being built

@Modoc Jack the interstate hwy system is designed around this purpose....from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 🤠

President Dwight Eisenhower was the main person that pushed for the interstate highways to be built all across the USA. I guess this was his shot at boosting the "infrastructure" The highways would also serve as emergency air strips if needed. I was too young to vote for him, but I did wear his campaign button, "I Like Ike".

@@JP-st2mk yes

@@billallen4793 this is not even interstate highway. And the highway system was built for transportation not as some airfields. And nobody wanted to invade Michigan.

@@WALTERBROADDUS to stop the Russian invasion from Canada...your wrong...

You're not! Skim the comment section one more time. I think you missed stuff.

I thought the same thing. Planning for something I'm sure.

Been reading a lot of day by day Armageddon recently. Got me thinking lol.

This worries me by far that they are getting ready for something way bigger

the world is in a very unstable place right now, i think their thought process is probably "always prepare for the worst possible scenario"

Dornier 328. Used for what? Spec-Ops ?

@@jjp.8690 c-146. If you see where they operate from you will get your answer lol

Here the goal is to NOT hook the wires lol

Yep Russia and China are close we must prepare for war on the Homeland

a thousand thumbs up for that first line :)

Well, that's one of the key reasons why it was built. The Americans were stunned by Nazi Germany's Autobahn network that allowed them to deploy their military quickly and decided to build their own after the war.

Even though the Military still use Trains for most long distance transport and aircraft for troop movements.

The highway system also has design built in areas of long straight flat areas with no over passes to allow the air force to use them as auxiliary air bases if all main air bases runways are destroyed.

Who ever complained about that

Well half the population are insurrectionists, so better be ready.

This training goes on here every single year at this time. First time with the highway landings but this is common here through the summer

Getting ready

Ive seen multiple buzz the shores of lake michigan on the west side

Exactly, even some over passes and bridges were designed to be airplane shelters.

@@finscreenname You’re correct about the overpasses, however that isn’t the case today since most all have since been replaced. I’m an engineer for Ohio Dot

I thought that's why they dug all the holes in teh road so the bumps wake you up?

Burrt

if you hear the brrt it wasnt for you.

I’d rather have A10s fly over my house than any more F15s. Those are deafening, even when they get a few miles out.

@@davidelzinga9757 A-10 has got a real high pitched wine. F-15 is booming loud.

@@trapperjohn6089 I know what they sound like. I live very close to the Gerald R Ford airport, and occasionally, those planes exercise there. Hence, why I’d rather have the whistling A10 fly over than the house shaking F15

@@bobdonovan34 Possibly it might be a joke. You never know.

@@bobdonovan34 Free country, so far

Interstate but very little to do with your aforementioned comment. Uh, Land and Take OFF.

@@HighSpeedNoDrag I bet you're fun at parties.

@@wakeup4332 Place a bet and I can be fun at parties and or handing someone I do like their Sunday paper at sunrise.

Nikes as Russians.. I love that

Nobody ever seriously considered invading the United States. "Red Dawn" is still just a movie.

WALTERBROADDUS I don’t have the time to educate you. There is enough information in my original text for a nice history lesson.

Sweden designed runway roads too for the cold war. It's a great idea,

@@денисбаженов-щ1б Russia would find itself in conflict with Nato and that won't end well for either. Why Russia would want Finland, apart from to impress some of it's own populance is irrational yet... I would think Russia would implode if it keeps on invading neighbours.

@@денисбаженов-щ1б Finland would be next Afghanistan for Russia.... and we all know what happened for soviet union after that. Defense of Finland is not meant to ”win the opponent”. Only cause so much damage that it’s not worth of attacking in Finland. So if we count old way 1-3 it meens that Russia would have to but atleast 700 000 troops on border for the attack on 300 000 Finnish troops. Thats most of the active personel of russian military. Thats the idea of defense in finland. In Russian perspective Finland is so small and after all meanigles land area that it would not be good idea to but most of the Russian troops just for Finland. And what comes to Nukes... well Russia is not only country wich have them so i think it’s the last option in tool box to use or blackmail with nukes.

@@денисбаженов-щ1б if it’s just a scenario i would be curios to hear your opinion in what scenario russia would but all it’s troops against Finland? Personaly i think that if Russia attacks on Finland it have to be some biger conflict. Like NATO vs Russia thing. In that case i pit doupt that russia would use all it’s 3 cruise missile on finland. And the problem is never so much how to attack and take area x but how to keep it. Beacouse it’s easy to cut fast advancing enemy from the support lines and then the enemy is stuck. Even in Helsinki. Then the Troops start getting tired and it cost money, material to attacker so sooner or later that kind ”motti” will be defedet/destroyed one way or another. So it dosent matter how much explosives Russia drops on Finland we will win. For example look Vietnam war. USA droped alot of bombs on enemy areas but still some how n.vietnamies manids to survive and win the war.

@@денисбаженов-щ1б that i do agree that the baltic states are more under the preasure than Finland. Even that they are NATO members dosent quarantie the safety. If Russia can take Latvia, Liethua and Estoni enough fast, lets say in 1-3weeks i think in that case NATO/EU might not do much like they didint do much during the Georgia and Ukrain conflight. Maby they just slam Russia again with some sanction wich dosent seems to do much. Plus i am sure invading troops wouldent like to see peoples and them childrens starving no mater that they are civilians of the enemy. That is not good for the troops moral if they sees alot of peoples starved to death side of the road. From that history would remember Russian army only as an murderers. Not heros wich they were during the 2ww...

Mich würde interessieren was die da geübt haben, die Jungens am Boden sind den Fahrzeugen nach Special Forces.Der Ziviljet muss auch irgendeine Funktion innerhalb der Übung haben. Die A-10 kann mit Bustern noch kürzere Startstrecke.

C-146A Wolfhound. USAF Special Operations Command airlifter.

@@mentalstampede Black ops plane looks like a commercial airliner.

the warthog is CAS (close air support) so it's not meant to fight other planes, it has that gun to shred tanks and any other ground target. pick the f-22 if you want to own the skies

if you show up to a dogfight with an a10 the enemy migs will gladly shoot you down. It is not at all meant for air to air combat.

@@zelkutaI still think the A-10 has enough countermeasures to fight the newer planes.

@@Karl_Kampfwagen bru imagine hitting an enemy plane with the gau canon

@@yume5338 Exactly... It eats tanks for breakfast, and would shred another plane to bits, given a skilled pilot. Watched a simulator run where CIWS Phalanx tries to fight with an A-10. 😅 The armor and agility kept it in the air, fighting until both ran out of ammunition to feed

That is a myth about the Interstate.

Interstate system has nothing to do with military aircraft. it had 100% that do with the moving of men and material. It was largely based on his pre-war experience because trying to drive across the United States.

@@justin8894 If they Actually thought about it, it makes no sense. Sweden? YES! USA? No....

That was an atr 42

@@owenbarden9556 I don't want to split hairs. Are you sure that was a 42 vs a 72? My dad flew both, so I'd like to think I have an idea of the two. It's obviously not a 340.

@@k-peezy2723 definatly a 42 and that is coming from an engineer to go works on them everyday

@@owenbarden9556 Good to know. Did you tell them to replace the PW's with proper Honeywells instead? Props to you though for being an engineer on one of the best regional flyers ever.

Well, not so free world.

Well they haven't tried operating Harriers and F-35's from US cities yet though.

They're practicing because this is literally what the interstate system was built for? Seriously, the USAF has been doing exactly this for the better part of the last CENTURY.

Exactly! I'm amazed at the comments here that people can be so blind to see what's going down.

@@Arclite02 you watch to much CNN

No doubt...lol

Special forces plane for operations on unimproved runways or roads apparently.

That’s how the seals and delta force vacation

My thoughts, show of force or preparations….

Thinkin the same thing!

@@LIamaLlama554 Your troops like most are obidiant and fight dirty wars so some people can make money off of it. Having planes take off and land on Michigan roads should concern you.

Middle East and Asia are probably the two bighest

well for one it's a good skill to have on hand if the airfield in the area you're operating in is out of commission

Well it is a Dem run state so what do you expect?

Shoot Wisconsin, looks like army artillery been using the roads for practice

Most planes, especially military aircraft, are designed for "soft field" landings, i.e. grass or unimproved dirt. Remember that the tires on these planes are much bigger than automobile tires so are less likely to get stuck in the mud like a car or truck. Think of it more like the tires on the original HMMV military Hummer than a lifted F-250 diesel. My fear as a pilot would be catching a wingtip on a tree. (Correctional: not all military planes are designed for soft field ops. My apologies for the misunderstanding.)

@@es330tdso, that’s not correct. Most planes aren’t designed for soft field landings. The DO328 happens to be one of the few transport category civilian aircraft (like the HS125 I used to fly) that is designed for unimproved landing fields. That’s not the point tho, you can easily still get stuck at a low speed while trying to turn around on a soft surface especially with not a lot of room to do so But what do I know after 15000 hours and 30+ years of flying over a dozen different aircraft and five jet type ratings? *edit* Holy crap did I just write that? Nobody is going to want to fly with me I sound like an A-hole!

@@HRradness Thanks for the clarification. I only fly light GA planes (C182 and A36 Bonanza.) I thought military planes were designed to be able to put down on unimproved surfaces so that forward bases could be set up if needed. I appreciate the correction.

@@HRradness I appreciate that but I am 50 and a career in aviation is not really an option. My CFII is a good friend of the family who is a 7,000 hr King Air 350 pilot and lead pilot for a Citation I straight wing jet. I’d love to fly more but life responsibilities preclude that. I feel fortunate to get to fly the Bonanza. It’s like a sports car compared to the C182 station wagon.

@@es330td keep flying it’s great that you are doing so for fun and not as a job. I am jealous of the bonanza it’s quite a hot rod! I had a student that had a 1953 V-tail with a throw over yoke and in many occasions I thought to myself “I am certainly going to die if I ever have to take control”;)

Too big

Only if you want do destroy the highway, plus it's not big enough.

The highway would have to be critically stressed to handle those large aircraft. Our runway was over three feet thick, to handle large aircraft. Even our parking area had to be rebuilt to handle the 747.

@@robertheinkel6225 yrah

This is why roads were built with such long straight sections

it is the first time in US's history that the military has done this yes

If you heard the fart you’re safe.

@@jjp.8690 well said

No, M32 in Alpena. There's a training area up there too.

This was last week, my son took part of this ,he is a a CCT .

@@dwainsellers6453 sweet. Worked on the ground under an A10 or two in Desert Storm and training. A-10s and Chopper pilots working down in the ditches with the ground pounders.

@@dwainsellers6453 I would have loved to be there watching

@@donavonrobbins1908 I remember “back in the day” when you could be on the beach up there and the B-52’s would be leaving their famous black trails coming in over Lake Huron.

Nah man I wanted more ebt and better house

Game and fish show up fashionably late on thier 4 wheeler, the military "that's cute" pulls up in a fully loaded tactical side x side armed to the teeth.

The engine sets up high enough to not have to worry about FOD.

@@michaelsullivan4213 two aircraft types, so engines. Both sit very high, and who knows. Things occur.

I did fod. walks everyday while I was stationed in korea. The helicopter engines sit high up. But we made sure there was no fod

In a real world situation there would be no time for that.