Here's a little known runway (and a biplane!) that was installed on top of the roof of 77 Water Street, one block south of Wall Street

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While hunting in Tokyo found this on a roof...

You ol' eagle eye, you!

Ever attempt this yourself, Lrae, or have a student do it?

Sorry, not I or any of my students have landed on a roof (helicopters don't count).

But I have landed here...

I tracked the airplane down on foot... Turns out the building is an Electronics school!
School was out when my friend and I went and the 'security gaurd' didn't even look twice as we walked in... So, to the elevator we went! The glassed in classrooms on the first floor had car mock-ups and an Imperial Trouper from Star Wars on display.
To the 5th floor and up two more flights of stairs to find ourselves at a (locked ) glass door. But there it was!! With two tie-down ropes holding it in place, the plane actually looked smaller than it did in the satellite view. What a rush!
Tried taking some pics through the glass with my PDA, but I'll have to go back and get some with a 'real' camera.
Anything else in the Tokyo area you need tracked down?
Jack

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It's pretty clearly not a real runway. The artist who installed it numbered it "77" because that's the address of the building, but real runway numbers tell the pilot which way the runway faces using a standard two-digit convention.

An east/west runway would have a "09" at one end and a "27" at the other (for headings 090 and 270, respectively). Heading 000 is due north, and heading 180 is due south. A runway numbered "77" would point towards heading 770, which doesn't exist. A funny side note, though: if heading 770 did exist, it would likely be interpreted as (360 + 360 + 50); the same heading as a runway that would traditionally be numbered 05 or 23. This runway happens to be facing heading 050 -- perfectly aligned with the fictional heading 770!