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Old 05-29-2013 | 03:23 PM
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Default RE: Gidelines for Paved runway, width, thickness, material

Google TORKS' Tom Jones Field in OKC.

The runway shown is asphalt that has been there since the 1970's. it measures 32 by 350. We had some patching done a decade ago and found out that the THICKEST point was a whole 1-1/2 inches. most of it was just 3/4 thick. It was laid on hard packed soil and we've had 5 1:1 scale helicopters on it at one time.

One thing to consider in your width decision is how wide of a path does the paving machine do? I doubt very much that they drop half widths. Ours is 32 feet wide because that was one pass by the paving machine

HTH

Good luck with the project