But if you know where a plane is coming from on a normal runway you know about where its gonna stop, on this it could wind up brakelessly looping around or more likely in case of hydraulics failure somewhere fairly close to the runway.
Circular Runways - what a cracking idea this is.......
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But if you know where a plane is coming from on a normal runway you know about where its gonna stop, on this it could wind up brakelessly looping around or more likely in case of hydraulics failure somewhere fairly close to the runway.
Fancy landing on that in a thunderstorm?
Its been tested in Simulators man.. bound to work.
few governments should get together and find a nice empty space to build a test case runway
cant be that hard to lay a bit of tarmac
Imagine trying to land on it in fog man
Three planes can use it at once apparently
What could possibly go wrong!?
think he means centripetal
another reason not to trust the mad fucker
jackynutmeg
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shit idea....wouldn't like to be in the plane when the pilot puts his foot down to take off
SYB_DC
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He talks about multiple takeoffs and landings at once, but at the same time no crosswinds. Those two statements are inconsistent: there's only one point on the circle at any given time that has a zero crosswind component and a headwind, and everyone would be trying to use that point - which would be constantly shifting. But in any event, if the takeoff and landing point are the same, it's effectively a single runway. Unless, of course, you want people taking off and landing with strong crosswind components, which is a really, really bad idea on a runway that already isn't straight and doesn't solve the problem in the first place - if planes could safely take off in strong crosswinds/tailwinds, there wouldn't be runway capacity issues in the first place.
Not to mention that it would be a lot noisier for people around the airport: I imagine the sound of two 777s hitting each other is pretty loud, and circular runways with chaotic approaches greatly increase the chance of that happening.
Not to mention that it would be a lot noisier for people around the airport: I imagine the sound of two 777s hitting each other is pretty loud, and circular runways with chaotic approaches greatly increase the chance of that happening.
you get multiple planes all over the shop on an airfield now... just overtake each other on the inside
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I can make anything work.
hypersonic
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Multiple take-off and landings lol
If it was such a great idea they'd use it now on straight runways.
If it was such a great idea they'd use it now on straight runways.
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Striker
Did he say after all that that the runway is about the size of 3 and does the job of 4? So you are only saving 1 runway?
but saving on general footprint of the airport overall.
looking at it for heathrow
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What about computer failures too so the pilot has to land the plane? All he sees is a round circle, where does he come down on it so as not to bump into the other x amount of planes going round and round!? A straight runway he can see exactly where he needs to be.
What about darkness? Straight has nice lights on so the pilots can see that the plane is doing what it is supposed to alongside the instruments. On a roundabout they wouldn't have a f***ing scooby doo if the computer is bringing them on a right course or not!?
What about darkness? Straight has nice lights on so the pilots can see that the plane is doing what it is supposed to alongside the instruments. On a roundabout they wouldn't have a f***ing scooby doo if the computer is bringing them on a right course or not!?
SYB_DC
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If there were enough space or the political will to have a circular runway at Heathrow, there would already be more than the 2 parallel runways they already have - there would be at least 1, probably 2 crosswind runways plus a third parallel.
it would have to be an all new airport. couldn't introduce one at heathrow if they wanted to.
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