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Marston Mat, more properly called pierced (or perforated) steel planking (PSP), is standardized, perforated steel matting material developed by the United States at the Waterways Experiment Station shortly before World War II, primarily for the rapid construction of temporary runways and landing strips (also misspelled as Marsden matting).
Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field (SELF) is a military airfield with an aluminum matted surface that is designed for sustained operations in an amphibious objective area. [7] The runway, taxiways, and aircraft parking areas are constructed entirely of AM-2 aluminum matting. [2]
Dunlap Auxiliary Field was open in 1941 on a 210.22 acres site and used to train World War II pilots in landing and take off. The site was also used as emergency landing airfield. The runway was a square mat 2,640 feet by 2640 feet. The mat was used for Boeing-Stearman Model 75 trainer bi-planes. No improvements were built at the airfield.
NOLF Waldron was built around 1941–1942 by the United States Navy as a set of pair airfields, Naval Outer Landing Field 21305 and NOLF #40. Both airfields had 4 paved runways extending towards the west, northwest, north, and northeast, from a circular landing mat.
Donald Wallace (Wally) Gordon (4 February 1932 – 11 April 2016) was an American gymnast and inventor who is notable for inventing the first landing mats, incline mats, octagons and all the other foam shapes that currently fill gymnastic schools. [1]
The Twenty Nine Palms airfield was taken over on January 1, 1942 and renamed Condor Field for United States Army Air Forces military glider training. The army built an 1800 x 3000 foot landing mat for the training.
Rolls of Sommerfield tracking can be seen in the foreground during a landing exercise at Slapton Sands, Devon, England, April 1944. Sommerfeld tracking , named after German expatriate engineer, Kurt Joachim Sommerfeld, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] then living in Cambridge, England, was a lightweight wire mesh type of prefabricated airfield surface.
The original contract included a steel hangar, 960 feet (290 m) long, 328 feet (100 m) wide and 190 feet (58 m) high, helium storage and service, barracks for 228 men, a power plant, landing mat, and a mobile mooring mast. [1]
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