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Old December 25th 06, 10:47 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Kev
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Default Circular runways for airports?


Larry Dighera wrote:
Now here's an idea almost as good as underground airports*:


Or as good as taking off from a treadmill ? :-) ;-)

So why not use a treadmill for landing as well. Then you'd just need
an "airport" the length of an airplane. Mount the treadmill on a
pivot, and you could always land/take off into the wind, too.

Of course, you could always use the aircraft carrier method of stopping
landing planes.... just mount all the passenger seats backwards to
absorb the shock.

Kev