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Circular Runways: Engineer Defends His Proposal

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the roundabouts-for-airplanes dept.

tangomargarine writes:

BBC News has a follow-up article to the circular airport runway proposal:

Last month we published a video arguing the case for circular runways at airports, as part of a series called World Hacks. It took off and went viral. The video has had more than 36 million views on Facebook and generated heated debate on social media - including within the aviation community. Many people are sceptical about the concept.

So we decided to hand-pick some of the top concerns and put them straight to the man proposing the idea: Dutch engineer Henk Hesselink. This is what he had to say.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @08:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @08:09PM (#498047)

    I have no background in this sort of thing, but my superficial understanding is that he didn't have any good replies, he just said "we know this may be a problem and we're thinking about it". to be honest, i think he would have been better off staying silent, now i actually believe he's stupid (before i thought he was just being naive).