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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
The main runway at Long Beach airport, (which, based on my skills as an internet ninja, I assume you are referring to), is 10,000 feet. In a pinch, with a perfect pilot, you could probably land the space shuttle on it. At sea level, there are only a handful of runways longer than 10,000 (LAX is 12,000), and none of them need to be for any aircraft, commercial or military, that I am aware of which is in regular service.
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean they needed longer runways for the F-18's, I meant for the bigger planes that fly out of there, that is what I meant by only a matter of when, as far as the margin for error.
The one runway is sometimes shut down for repair, making them use the shorter runway, which is putting a lot at risk.