Message posted by Nelson on January 07, 2009 at 16:07:32 PST:

It is an emergency net arresting system. It's called the MA-1A arresting system, I found a diagram of it in online references in an air force manual. It really is a net that catches the landing gear, the friction brake can be either a set of anchor chains laid out alongside the overrun area, or, as in this case, by a mechanical friction mechanism.
I put the diagram on my website if you're curious, I'm going to attempt to put a link to the manual site, but I can't promise anything, I swear, computers hate me.

In Reply to: Re: A question about Groom Lake posted by xx on January 07, 2009 at 14:16:03 PST:

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