[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 63, Issue 58

[Cindy and James]

My father-in -law (retired USAF Col.) calls this stuff PSP or Pierced 
Steel Planking.  Said he used to take off loaded B-24's on Guadalcanal 
and this PSP would "roll up" in front of him as he went.  I'll ask him 
if they landed on it or not.  I doubt there is any of this around 
anymore.  JA
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> I've seen two over lapping layers of heavy expanded metal raised edge 
> wired together for this purpose but the substrate must not be too 
> loose. A guy I used to work with (Now Deceased) was a WW2 vet who said 
> they used this method for emergency airfields on some pacific islands. 
> I don't remember if this was a landing surface or a base layer he 
> described, but I think it started as a landing surface and if needed 
> became more sophisticated.
> L Brown
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