Comment by fuzzythinker
1 day ago
Or a ramp with "one-way teeth" that stops it with gravity and stops it from sliding back down with teeth.
1 day ago
Or a ramp with "one-way teeth" that stops it with gravity and stops it from sliding back down with teeth.
linehedonist's comment is an idea that is shown to work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_materials_arrestor_...
The plane is fast and heavy.
And fragile and will go splat if you try and do anything approaching a runaway truck ramp to it.
The ramp will need to be very long and very high in order to absorb the momentum of a fully loaded widebody jet. Not something that you'd want near a runway where planes can land in either direction.
Sounds like a much more substantial runaway truck ramp