[ro_dreaming]

Personally, I think this is a really good idea. You could even have concentric circles, to allow for more than 3 planes landing/taking off at a time. Obviously, you'd have to separate them out by 1/4 mile, or 1/2 mile or more. Or, set them 1/2 mile apart for different terminals.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I wish I had a circle driveway...

[dirtboy]

Yeah, because traffic circles in New Jersey have worked so well.

[thesharkboy]

A figure 8 runway would be cool!

[Billthedrill]

It does come up now and then. Yes, it would make crosswind landings a thing of the past. It would also require a helluva lot of concrete.

[dirtboy]

Since airplanes would be able to approach and take off from any direction around the proposed circle, they wouldn’t have to fight against crosswinds. And three planes would be able to take off or land at the same time.

I guess the author failed to notice the contradiction in those two sentences.

[taxcontrol]

Would require near total change out of all plane navigation systems, control tower systems, ATC personnel will need to be retrained, and lots of housing / buildings will need to be demolished in order to “upgrade” the runway.

[BeauBo]

I’m guessing this guy is not a pilot.

[Davy Crocket]

Maybe they will require Fly-bye-wire A/V’s!

[dfwgator]

“Now arriving at Gate 10....Gate 11....Gate 12.....Gate 13.....Gate 10......Gate 11.....Gate 12....Gate 13....”

[MayflowerMadam]

Taxiing maybe, but runways? They’ll have to be hiring some real jet jockeys to make that happen without flipped-over planes everywhere.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

You could even have concentric circles

I think that's a bit much. No sense designing a system with flight paths crossing each other.

[rjsimmon]

they wouldn’t have to fight against crosswinds.

In whose universe? Would wind no longer exist simply because there is a big circle of asphalt? For precision approaches, there would still need to be a defined approach end and that entails wind patterns. Departure ends have the same problem. They could not have pilots just pick where they wanted to land/take off or collisions would be the norm.

[Red Badger]

Berlin has a circular airport.......................

[SkyDancer]

How about having circular runways spin under a stationary plane and when the spinning runway reaches takeoff speed they release the plane. Makes about as much sense.

[DakotaGator]

Oh boy! Roundabouts for airplanes. Maybe we should also explore stacked runways?!

[DJ Taylor]

Apparently, outside access to the terminal is underground.

[polymuser]

This Dutch guy will be so upset when his brain(less)child isn’t just adored by all. They’re like that, proggies. Better he work on high tech pork-enhanced chastity belts for their wimin.

[robroys woman]

The first gas powered airplane I had already used this innovation. ‘Course, it had a string coming out of one of the wings.

[WayneS]

Sometimes, a “brain child” turns out to be just a “brain-fart”...

[SandRat]

They’ve been on the Merry-G0-Round too LONG!