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This is what happens: airlines don’t schedule flights at 3:30 AM. Everybody wants to take off at 7 AM. So there is the 6:56 departure, 6:58 departure, 7:00 departure, 7:02 departure … When you have 36 flights all scheduled to take off in the same hour, it doesn’t take much to cause a traffic jam
So what we need to design is an airport in a star shape. I don’t mean like typical stars where the vertices are joined but like a starburst: a central point and runways radiating out in all directions. You depart on the runway pointing closest towards your destination. This way there can be simultaneous departures. The flight to Chicago won’t be in the way of the flight to Miami.
Farside99 almost 6 years ago
Yes, I have to wait for the mechanic to repair the propeller with duck tape.
sandpiper almost 6 years ago
Software that will keep a person motionless for an hour or more? Imagine what that would be like on any street or in malls.
DanFlak almost 6 years ago
This is what happens: airlines don’t schedule flights at 3:30 AM. Everybody wants to take off at 7 AM. So there is the 6:56 departure, 6:58 departure, 7:00 departure, 7:02 departure … When you have 36 flights all scheduled to take off in the same hour, it doesn’t take much to cause a traffic jam
So what we need to design is an airport in a star shape. I don’t mean like typical stars where the vertices are joined but like a starburst: a central point and runways radiating out in all directions. You depart on the runway pointing closest towards your destination. This way there can be simultaneous departures. The flight to Chicago won’t be in the way of the flight to Miami.
garcoa almost 6 years ago
Don’t forget you need to de-ice first. Then you wait and have to de-ice again.
Zen-of-Zinfandel almost 6 years ago
Today’s toon is moderately plane.