Circular runways...?

[Gnarly Gnu]

I was thinking a round field, like an ALA but this guy actually means like a big ring. I get the space saving part...

 

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[/url]What if a runway were like a racetrack?

 

That's the basis of an idea called the

 

[/url]Endless Runway

 

by Dutch researcher Henk Hesselink and partners at the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) in the Netherlands, who think circular runways could help the future take flight."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ferris]

Hmmm, landing with a head wind, that becomes a cross wind and finally a tail wind. Guess you could have head wind again if you don't slow down soon enough. Would soon learn rudder control!

 

 

[turboplanner]

This has been doing the rounds on Facebook. I suggested it was a great idea, and would allow us to build a bigger outer wing, which would have the added benefit of faster round trips between Melbourne and Sydney, and got a like for it.

 

 

[facthunter]

Just one big long high speed turnoff. No thanks. Nev

 

 

[Birdseye]

When I saw that a week or so ago I thought it was just an early April Fool's joke.

 

 

[turboplanner]

Just one big long high speed turnoff. No thanks. Nev

That's the problem with you three holer jocks; you never learnt to be unidextrous

 

 

[Marty_d]

That's the problem with you three holer jocks; you never learnt to be unidextrous

There's a thread in "What's Up Australia" where that comment would have an entirely different meaning.

 

 

[turboplanner]

There's a thread in "What's Up Australia" where that comment would have an entirely different meaning.

Well you stay over there Marty, this is a legitimate aviation term.

 

 

[SDQDI]

Just one big long high speed turnoff. No thanks. Nev

The first thing I pictured was a runway 'excursion' off an elevated bank, not exactly a desirable thing.

 

 

[Marty_d]

The first thing I pictured was a runway 'excursion' off an elevated bank, not exactly a desirable thing.

Depends on your speed... don't the pommy aircraft carriers have a ski jump at the bow?