Cub Driver wrote in message . ..
Circular (or at least 360-degree) airfields were common at one time.
You put a stake in the center with a windsock on top. The aircraft
landing simply landed into the wind, wherever it was coming from.

Wu Chia Ba airport in Kunming used this arrangement before the
Americans arrived toward the end of 1941.


See: http://members.tripod.com/airfields_...ds_FL_JaxN.htm,
and search for "VQQ". This will show Cecil Field NAS in Jax in a WWII
aerial photo. The original circular landing area still shows.

It's a cool website in any case.

-Malcolm Teas