Aeronautics and astronautics – Landing field arrangement
Patent
1993-01-13
1994-11-29
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Landing field arrangement
B64F 136
Patent
active
053682572
ABSTRACT:
Airport structure for operating aircraft in one direction during landing, taxiing and take off in short, efficient distances. The aircraft lands on an approach runway connected to an apron. It then taxies across the apron in generally the same direction as on the runway. It departs on a runway located on the opposite side of the apron from the approach runway. Both runways are in parallel and the runways are spaced laterally in distance equal to the width of the apron. The taxi distance is the shortest possible distance measured directly between the two runways in a linear, noncircular dimension. The apron is unobstructed in this dimension by the runway connections defining the taxi passageway path between distributed aviation buildings on the apron rather than the buildings being grouped together so as to obstruct straight taxi paths. The airport members allow reciprocal path direction and the members can be duplicated around a common axis creating big airports without taxiways in the preferred configuration.
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