1945 floating runway - GIF

**Jon** · May 27, 2021, 01:41 PM

1945 floating runway.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_and_Clover

Previously:

Suspended cable runway for airplane takeoff and landing - GIFs and video
Vintage jet blast destroys runway - GIF
C-130 dumps tank on runway - GIF
Runway snowblower - GIF
Airport runway rubber removal GIF

**NeiljohnUK** · May 28, 2021, 04:17 AM

Couldn't imagine any other plane than a stringbag (Fairey Swordfish) being slow enough to land on it, though it appears to have had rocket assistance to get off again. The stringbag was famous for being so slow that AA gunners often missed in front, enabling the crews to press home torpedo attacks such as on the Bismarck.

**Moby Duck** · May 28, 2021, 06:25 AM

Originally Posted by NeiljohnUK

Couldn't imagine any other plane than a stringbag (Fairey Swordfish) being slow enough to land on it, though it appears to have had rocket assistance to get off again. The stringbag was famous for being so slow that AA gunners often missed in front, enabling the crews to press home torpedo attacks such as on the Bismarck.

Bismarck who was sunk by them 80 years ago, yesterday.

**NeiljohnUK** · May 30, 2021, 02:41 PM

Strictly she wasn't, according to my son who is in the RN (and the official war record), they disabled her allowing surface ships to catch up and sink her.