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To: DoughtyOne

The runway is 3km long, not 3 miles. This is not much longer than your average runway at a major airport, which is why they’ve made the runway banked. The forces would be noticeable.


20 posted on 04/25/2017 2:36:56 PM PDT by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: linear

Thanks. I misread it then.


31 posted on 04/25/2017 2:47:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: linear

3KM in DIAMETER, There’s not many areas you can build such a runway. Philadelphia airport is built along the Delaware River in the Tinicum Marsh with I-95 hemming it in to the West. A). No room. B) the marshy terrain isn’t going to allow dishing the runway or building up heavy road-bed to achieve the bank. C). In all reality you can’t approach from any point on the compass. Certain areas will deny overflight for political or security reasons. There are a lot of airports in the eastern US with similar problems.


146 posted on 04/29/2017 7:21:54 AM PDT by Tallguy
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