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How Finland clears a snowy runway in minutes
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While a single snowflake can completely paralyze airports in warmer climates, Finland treats apocalyptic blizzards like a minor inconvenience. Their runway clearance ballet uses a fleet of Vammas PSB 5500s—a terrifying twenty-five-meter-long contraption that simultaneously plows, furiously sweeps with an enormous rotating brush, and blasts high-velocity air, erasing winter from the tarmac in mere minutes.
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