Airfield Runways in Norway

[Andreas Brekken]

Hi, guys.

Was a bit surprised myself by parts of this discussion.

With regards to the translations I feel we should divide the runway types used in Norway in the following way:

Sand-filled 'egg-carton' (German Eierkasten) type. This was a construction based on wooden grids which was laid on leveled ground and then filled with sand, thus being kind of a wooden psp plating runway

Concrete runways - no further explanation necessary

Wooden plank runways - just large wooden planks placed side by side on wooden support beams

I believe the combined concrete/planked runways as described was a result of the necessity to extend some of the runways (for example at Vaernes near Trondheim) faster than possible with concrete. The ground were the extensions were constructed was simply to uneven or the drainage system took too long to lay down, so as a temporary solution a wooden plank runway was constructed. We have photos from Vaernes showing that this runway was indeed at places constructed at a level well above ground level and the runway planking supported by large timbers, at several places substantially above ground level.

Regards,
Andreas B