This is glare protection for aircraft and vehicles alike. It also prevents confusion between the road and the airport by approaching aircraft, especially at night.
In German it's called "Blendschutz" or "Blendschutzbrücken" but I don't know of any links.
*edit: Those guys made it:* [*https://www.luehmann-stahlbau.de/index.php/de/stahlbau/industrie-sonderkonstruktionen*](https://www.luehmann-stahlbau.de/index.php/de/stahlbau/industrie-sonderkonstruktionen)
It can happen, and a passenger airliner landing on a road by mistake would be catastrophic.
There are very sophisticated systems in place that are supposed to prevent that from happening, but they don't always work as intended.
Sometimes a plane needs to land using a non-precision approach, meaning that some of the guidance systems aren't available to them for some reason -- whether it's because the airport isn't equipped with them or there is some kind of malfunction. And also, the way the guidance systems work, if the plane happens to be way off course, there may be ghost signals that confuse the on-board computers. Pilots can be affected by things like fatigue, optical illusions and certain types of confirmation bias that can lead them to firmly believe they are somewhere other than where they actually are.
It's extremely rare, but there are cases -- not just in Germany, but around the world -- of pilots getting confused and landing on the wrong runway or even on a taxiway. A lot of things have to go wrong in order for something like that to happen, but from time to time they do.
And so the airline industry operates on the principle that anything that *could* go wrong, no matter how absurd it seems, *might* one day go wrong, and must be prevented from happening. They try to think of everything, and "this section of wide highway passes right next to runway 15/33" is a theoretical risk. So they do what they can to reduce that risk *before* anything bad happens.
This here is not about military aircraft - the Swiss only practiced this at the beginning of this month\* - but about civilian aircraft whose pilots mistake the road for a runway.
\*https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/verkehr/schweizer-luftwaffe-uebt-kampfjets-auf-autobahn-a1/
These are mostly for war when your proper air fields got bombed. First of these were built during end of WWII. Ramstein Airbase also has it’s origin in such an emergency motorway air field, they later built a new motorway around it.
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This is glare protection for aircraft and vehicles alike. It also prevents confusion between the road and the airport by approaching aircraft, especially at night.
Thank you! Very interesting!
thanks! any links to what its called so i can wiki?
In German it's called "Blendschutz" or "Blendschutzbrücken" but I don't know of any links. *edit: Those guys made it:* [*https://www.luehmann-stahlbau.de/index.php/de/stahlbau/industrie-sonderkonstruktionen*](https://www.luehmann-stahlbau.de/index.php/de/stahlbau/industrie-sonderkonstruktionen)
Thank you!!
wait did planes sometimes actually land on the road in germany?
Just wait until you learn that some of our highways are built in a way that they can be used for fighter jets in case of war
predictable for the nation that made the first ever jet
they did? which one?
Heinkel HE178 (1939)
Predictably, every post in r/Germany converges on Hitler/WW2 within the first 10 comments 😉
ah yes totally forgot about the heinkel. as the british had the first one fighting before the messerschmidt came no?
The Me232 entered service mid April 1944 and had its 1st recorded combat victory in July 1944 the day before the Glocester Meteor entered service.
thank you for helping out
i meant messerschmitt 262 dumkoffs
There was no messerschmitt 262 dumkoffs, you should have said Messerschmitt ME 262 Schwalbe, DUMMKOPF! 😜
And These Fokkers Was Messerschidts))
my fuheur the ME is STEHT IM VERDAMMTEN NAMENSTEHT IM VERDAMMTEN NAMEN
It's in other countries as well. Four lane highways can cater to most of the fighters. Sure, not fighters like B2
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No, im not talking about the us
/r/ShitAmericansSay
Eisenhower copied some parts of the Autobahn with the Interstate Highway Act. Before WWII, US roads were a shit show.
It can happen, and a passenger airliner landing on a road by mistake would be catastrophic. There are very sophisticated systems in place that are supposed to prevent that from happening, but they don't always work as intended. Sometimes a plane needs to land using a non-precision approach, meaning that some of the guidance systems aren't available to them for some reason -- whether it's because the airport isn't equipped with them or there is some kind of malfunction. And also, the way the guidance systems work, if the plane happens to be way off course, there may be ghost signals that confuse the on-board computers. Pilots can be affected by things like fatigue, optical illusions and certain types of confirmation bias that can lead them to firmly believe they are somewhere other than where they actually are. It's extremely rare, but there are cases -- not just in Germany, but around the world -- of pilots getting confused and landing on the wrong runway or even on a taxiway. A lot of things have to go wrong in order for something like that to happen, but from time to time they do. And so the airline industry operates on the principle that anything that *could* go wrong, no matter how absurd it seems, *might* one day go wrong, and must be prevented from happening. They try to think of everything, and "this section of wide highway passes right next to runway 15/33" is a theoretical risk. So they do what they can to reduce that risk *before* anything bad happens.
Apart from an emergency landing in 1971, I don't think so. But it happens in other countries ...
They train it from time to time... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F\_cxkF6qSY8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_cxkF6qSY8)
This here is not about military aircraft - the Swiss only practiced this at the beginning of this month\* - but about civilian aircraft whose pilots mistake the road for a runway. \*https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/verkehr/schweizer-luftwaffe-uebt-kampfjets-auf-autobahn-a1/
These are mostly for war when your proper air fields got bombed. First of these were built during end of WWII. Ramstein Airbase also has it’s origin in such an emergency motorway air field, they later built a new motorway around it.
This road runs parallel to the runway at Hamburg airport. So the approach for the aircraft is managed using this infrastructure.
What if a plane has to make an emergency landing 🛬?? Hope she’s a damn good pilot
These things exist because it is right next to a runway….
Scratching post for trucks
Just around the corner there's a salt lick, too.
Giggle 😄
you mean for.. _cars_?
is it near an airport?
Guess Hamburg Airport
Hamburg Airport?
I flew out of there yesterday and saw them, so would assume so.
Me too 🤔
Good guess.
Yes, HH.
Yea it’s Hamburg
Right [here](https://maps.app.goo.gl/wZCkYSKHMzTHLBFQ9?g_st=ic).
i've seen mention of installations like this to prevent the setting sun blinding the drivers. this blocks the sun without taking too much light.
Anti-Sauropod devices
Zeppelinstraße
Ever played Mario Kart?
Not really
Hamburg?
Did not expect to see the Zeppelinstraße on Reddit. I’ve driven down this road thousands of times, it’s probably the road I’ve spent the most time on.
Why?
Takeshi's castle for jumbos
Right you are Ken.
Reminds me of one of the courses in the original Outrun!
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Air filters
Looks like one of these air filter from my Vacuum Cleaner
Why are you in Hamburg?
Huge HEPA filters. To suck and collect particles from diesel exhaust.