’The endless runway’ is a new airport concept from Dutch scientist Henk Hesselink, consisting of a 3.5 KM diameter round runway encircling the terminal building. the circular runway—which allows up to three planes to take off and land at the same time—would take up just a third of the space of a conventional airport. fed up with delayed flights due to wind conditions, Hesselink designed a runway concept that can be used independent of changing wind speed and direction, since there is always a point without a crosswind on the circular track.

Hesselink originally came up with ‘the endless runway’ after watching one too many scary crosswind plane landings on Youtube, and decided to take action to improve the situation. the circular shape of the banked runway would allow it to be used in all wind conditions, by allowing planes to take off and land at any point on the circle. in strong, blowy conditions, aircraft would land at the point where wind was at a minimum. with changing wind direction, the aircraft can move with the wind, preventing bumpy landings and costly operations for changing runway direction. the ring-shaped track also ensures that the planes always have headwind when they need to take off and land.

Alongside improving the flying experience for passengers, Hesselink also believes that making runways ring-shaped can have a positive environmental impact. since planes will not have to compete with strong cross winds, they will burn less fuel in the area around the airfield. planes will be able to fly in from any direction, giving the pilot greater control over where to fly, and where to avoid flying. the increased choice in take-off and landing direction would be a big step in managing air traffic conditions, which are increasing greatly as the airfield sector doubles in size every 15 years.

The circular runway is equivalent in length to three straight airstrips, but Hesselink's team have calculated that it would be able to handle the demands of four normal runways, allowing airports to occupy less land space. ‘the endless runway’ project is supported by the Netherlands aerospace center (NLR), along with DLR Germany and ONERA in France


Source:
http://www.autoreportng.com/2017/04/circular-runway-allows-planes-to-take.html

I am loving this concept more and more..

See more pictures and video here

http://www.autoreportng.com/2017/04/circular-runway-allows-planes-to-take.html

Nice concept, but requires professional and experienced pilots to take off/land here.

Imagine a plane with faulty flaps, having difficulties taking off, taxing round to face another taking off or landing plane.

Explorers:
Nice concept, but requires professional and experienced pilots to take off/land here.

Imagine a plane with faulty flaps, having difficulties taking off, taxing round to face another taking off or landing plane.

Quite true...

Great concept for landing...but with the various terminal needed for the big airports mentionned above, the final product would be just as big as the current airport.... CDG (for example) has 9 terminals, and as seen by the photo above, no doubt they wont fit in that tiny space in the middle.

Imagine what they are thinking about and we still believe in money rituals down here...

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It's all about space utility. Nice concept.

ichommy:
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Welcome ichommy.

sapientia:
Imagine what they are thinking about and we still believe in money rituals down here...

Our backwardness has no rivalry, honestly.

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The guy below me is a piece of shit

Airport don dey get round about

oyibo man thank you for this

When is that again that we are supposed to producing pencils down here?

This is what we call modern technology

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I agree "the guy below""

As a student Pilot,
Its not viable to aerodynamics of an airplane.
It means you solely need crosswinds, this na just idea.

How do you land in an emergency phase,
And still trying to be in the Circle.

Nice!
Explorers baba! Man of timber caliber, ply wood and sawdust

stevebond007:
As a student Pilot,
Its not viable to aerodynamics of an airplane.
It means you solely need crosswinds, this na just idea.

How do you land in an emergency phase,
And still trying to be in the Circle.

Oga they can always tilt a lil after touch down. Its way better than before touch down

looks like illuminati logo

This is DOPE.

Noted

Kudos to the scientist. Wish my Country to attain the level of inventing good things for our dearest country instead of inventing crimes

this is so cool.

If such a project is proposed in Nigeria, the budget would be inflated tenfold and yet, all the funds would be embezzled. Then a committee would be set up to investigate the scam, and even more money would be used to bribe committee members. Nigeria is a shitty country!

Not all pilots can use this type of airport. There has to be a special training for most pilots on this aspect if not disaster will prevail.

Not only the pilots will need trainings. Aircraft will have to be re-jigged to be able to take off and land on a curve. All that speed, force and stresses with the front wheel turned? Not locked in a foward facing position? That's a lot of redesigning.