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Hitting the beach

Landing a big transport like a C-130 on a rough, unprepared airfield requires a team of experts on the ground and in the air. Søren Augustesen discovers how the Royal Danish Air Force trains for this mission at Lakolk Beach, on the small island of Rømø. Rough-field ops in Denmark A member of the Z-team inserts a penetrologger into the ground to measure the load-bearing capabilities of the surface. The final approach to the beach runway as seen from the

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