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landing mat

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A prefabricated, portable mat so designed that any number of planks (sections) may be rapidly fastened together to form surfacing for emergency runways, landing beaches, etc.
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Murphy's Law might conceivably place the vaulter on the landing mat in an awkward but not necessarily unsafe position.
The other side of the pole vault issue. (Track & Field) by Fahy, Michael / Coach and Athletic Director
Outside its massive hangar doors lay a 2,000-foot asphalt circular landing mat.
Then and now: NAS Hitchcock, Texas by Henck, Harrold / Naval Aviation News
2 pole-vaulter on the Hart varsity team, died April 29, hours after he slid off the landing mat after clearing a 10-foot jump.
TEEN ATHLETE LAID TO REST; DISTRAUGHT MOURNERS PAY RESPECTS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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