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Circular Runways: Engineer Defends His Proposal
World Hacks, the British Broadcasting Company ^
| 04/21/2017
| Dougal Shaw
Posted on 04/25/2017 2:09:26 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: TexasGator; DoughtyOne
On a circular and properly banked track, one can take their hands off the wheel (i.e. nose wheel centered for a plane) and the vehicle will continue to follow the circular path.
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:10:01 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Vinnie
They wave a checkered flag when you hit flight speed...
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:10:13 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: SamAdams76
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:10:34 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: DoughtyOne
Do planes land clockwise south of the equator, counter-clockwise in the north?
To: TexasGator
Which you are clearly not.
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:11:55 PM PDT
by
linear
(The truth brooks no arbiters.)
To: VTenigma
LOL, we have Asian drivers out here and some of them I wouldn’t put behind the wheel of a tricycle.
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:12:50 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: ReaganGeneration2
...and what happens when you have a strip on the equator?
Dang!
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:13:53 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: DoughtyOne
Oh goody round about a for airliners
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:15:55 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: DoughtyOne
They don’t have anything on the line. They’re “proposing” something that will never be built. They’re not even looking at anything happening for 20 years. So on the off chance it happens they’ll all be retired. No rep on the line for anybody.
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:18:17 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Stand up and be counted, for what you are about to receive.)
To: DoughtyOne
Well, if a circular runway is flat out... can't we at least have rooftop runways?
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:19:32 PM PDT
by
C210N
To: pfflier
IF future planes have a different configuration then we can look at how airports should be configured
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:20:44 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: TexasGator
But then you still have to go around the circle, so eventually you will be perpendicular to the wind. And because the plane is tilted it’ll have more surface exposed to the wind, and with less ground clearance for the wing tips there’s less forgiveness for any tilt that wind causes.
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:21:08 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Stand up and be counted, for what you are about to receive.)
To: DoughtyOne
Sounds like something only a Democrat could support.
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:21:14 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
To: TexasGator
Ice on a buggy was the least bad idea available to solve that problem. When all other options are terrible the merely crappy idea is king. We have a runway solution that actually works.
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:23:20 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Stand up and be counted, for what you are about to receive.)
To: linear
“Which you are clearly not.”
Your comment was stupid. You can’t engage nose-wheel steering at high speeds.
To: linear
“As a former AF pilot, this idea horrifies me. “
As a former passenger of an AF pilot, this idea horrified me too.
5.56mm
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:32:59 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: linear
We can return to taildraggers, like the ME 262 prototypes. Oh, wait...
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:36:22 PM PDT
by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
To: Ace's Dad
Physics is so pre-Common Core.
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:37:58 PM PDT
by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
To: Nifster
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:38:58 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: discostu
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posted on
04/25/2017 3:39:28 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
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