Angel Maintenance
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: The West Wing: Season 4: Angel Maintenance
By skinny on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 7:05 pm:

Near the end of the episode, the Captain of Air Force One announces that they will be landing on Runway "Three-niner". This is nonsense, runways are named after their heading in degrees divided by ten. So a runway on heading 290 degrees is called Runway 29, etc. The highest number for a runway would be 36. I'm also not convinced that the fighter jet glimpsed from Air Force One was an F-16, it looked like it had a twin tailplane. The F-16 has a single tail, both the F-14 and F-15 have twin tailplanes. I can't be sure though, as the shot changed quickly.

By ScottN on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 12:45 am:

The highest number for a runway would be 36

Except that bearings run from 0 to 359, so the highest number for a runway should be 35.

By skinny on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 9:14 am:

Runway designators are 'rounded up', so they run from 01 to 36.

By ScottN on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 6:41 pm:

Ah. Thank you.

[JOHNNY-CARSON] I did not know that! [/JOHNNY-CARSON]

By Rodney Hrvatin (Rhrvatin) on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 11:24 pm:

Synopsis for this episode:
Air Force experiences some technical difficulties when trying to land and the President is forced to make some hard foreign policy decisions on the fly... Meanwhile, Josh interviews a replacement for Ainsly Hayes. Could he BE any more of a Republican>

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