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Obviously the farm should be on an all-weather road.
There is a proposal to develop some of the roads running from the SW to the NE to create an all-weather road named the Outback Highway, crossing the continent diagonally from Laverton, Western Australia ( north of Kalgoorlie, through the Northern Territory to Winton, in Queensland.
This will involve the upgrading or construction of over 7, 500 km of roads, with the goal of improving the average road density for Ethiopia to 35 km per 1000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, and reduce the proportion of the country area that is more than 5 km from an all-weather road from 75 % to 70 %.
The Stanley-Mount Pleasant Airport-Goose Green road and roads within Stanley are asphalted ; all other roads are gravel all-weather roads.
After numerous other improvements, in 1791-3 this section was made into Prussia's first all-weather road.
Transport in Sudan during the early 1990s included an extensive railroad system that served the more important populated areas except in the far south, a meager road network ( very little of which consisted of all-weather roads ), a natural inland waterway — the Nile River and its tributaries — and a national airline that provided both international and domestic service.
Asphalted all-weather roads, excluding paved streets in cities and towns, amounted to roughly 3, 000 to 3, 500 kilometers, of which the Khartoum-Port Sudan road accounted for almost 1, 200 kilometers.
Since then the paved road has been extended to Umm Ruwabah with the intention to complete an all-weather road to Al Ubayyid.
In addition, the government built a gravel all-weather road east of Juba that reaches the Kenyan border.
There it joined an all-weather road to Lodwar in Kenya connecting it with the Kenyan road system.
Although less common, discs are also used on road bicycles for all-weather cycling with predictable braking, although drums are sometimes preferred as harder to damage in crowded parking, where discs are sometimes bent.
The revenue from tolls enabled an all-weather metaled road surface of compacted gravel to be laid down.
Although the Alberta government has previously conducted studies on all-weather road access, no action has been taken.
In December 2005, one-third of Fort Chipewyan's residents signed a petition to request the government to build a all-weather road to connect with existing roads to the northwest that provide access to Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.
The guards used an all-weather patrol road ( Kolonnenweg, literally " column way ") to patrol the border and travel rapidly to the scene of an attempted crossing.
In late 2010, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency announced that an environmental study would be undertaken on a proposed all-weather road between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk.
Though there is no good all-weather road yet, the place is worth visiting.
The all-weather road to Hay River was officially completed in 1966 as well, permanently linking Fort Smith to the south.
In 1796, an improved all-weather road was opened for wagon and carriage travel.
The only all-weather road right across the range is the " Pahiatua Track ", which joins Palmerston North and Pahiatua and is much used when the Manawatu Gorge road is closed.

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Expansion and modernization of Raymond Field was completed in the fall of 2007 and features the installation of an eight-lane all-weather running track and a move to the same premium artificial turf used by the New England Patriots of the National Football League for its main playing field.
The clouds meant that SAC was all-weather capable.
The culminating design of this research was the Convair F-106 Delta Dart, an aircraft which for many years was the USAF's primary all-weather interceptor.
Although the design of the large, jet-powered all-weather interceptor, renamed the CF-100 Canuck, was largely complete by the next year, the factory was not tooled for production until late 1948 due to ongoing repair and maintenance contracts.
An enclosed driver's cab was available as option starting in 1953, making the Unimog a true all-weather vehicle.
When it was built, it was the only all-weather airport between Albuquerque, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California.
Shed Road, the first all-weather turnpike in the American South, was constructed in the 1870s and operated from 1874 – 1886.
Before receiving the KC-135 tanker and heavy B-52 bomber aircraft of SAC, an all-weather, heavy-duty concrete runway was built, measuring 24 inches ( 61 cm ) thick, 150 feet ( 46 m ) wide.
The " G " model was a conversion of the former SAC FB-111A all-weather strategic bombing version of the F-111, which was originally intended as an interim successor to the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and Convair B-58 Hustler.
Construction required only cutting of grass to create a hard, all-weather sod runway, and Del Monte No. 1, the first of seven planned strips on Mindanao, was ready for limited operations by 5 December.
At the time the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was offered to the Navy, the Vought F-8 Crusader had already been accepted as a " day " dogfighter, while the subsonic McDonnell F3H Demon was the Navy's all-weather fighter.
The Phantom was developed as the Navy's first supersonic all-weather radar-equipped fighter armed with radar-guided missiles.
In the US Air Force's Lightweight Fighter ( LWF ) program, the F-16 was originally envisaged as inexpensive day fighter, but quickly converted to an all-weather role.
The Alderney lifeboat station was established in 1869, closed in 1884 and re-established in 1985 by the RNLI, which serves Alderney with its all-weather Trent class lifeboat Roy Barker I.
The facility was renamed after a major expansion and renovation in the 1980s that included installation of an artificial playing surface, an all-weather track, a second level of seating, twelve racquetball courts, men's and women's locker rooms, five classrooms, and a fitness center.
A final attempt to exploit a fully traversing turret was found in the original 1948 design of the Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk all-weather jet fighter interceptor.
Galland also did not make sure all-weather flying was incorporated into pilot training, which was of decisive importance in an effective air defence force.

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Mr Masters also organised the building of the school's all-weather pitch, which was completed in 2006.
A new state-of-the-art artificial turf soccer field and an outdoor all-weather track has been completed on the lower portion of the campus and hosts the AU men's and women's soccer programs and well as the men's and women's outdoor track and field teams.
In 2004 and 2005, various bond projects were completed, such as a parking lot renovation and all-weather track.
Construction had been completed, however, on two important coastal fields in Southeastern Alaska, Annette Army Airfield at Annette Island and Yakutat Army Airfield at Yakutat, and the first direct all-weather air route to Alaska from Seattle was open.

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