Mysterious News Briefly December 16, 2020
An engineer at the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre claims that all airport congestion and noise pollution problems could be solved by building runways in circles around the terminal, which would allow takeoffs and landings from any direction and in any weather conditions, with one circular runaway handling the traffic of four conventional ones. Will pilots have to remember that British airport runways turn to the left?
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Built as a 2.2 mile wide circle around an airport terminal, the runway would allow for a high volume of traffic as several takeoffs and landings could take place simultaneously
Without crosswind holding up flights and causing delays, planes would be able to land and take off more frequently, increasing airport capacity.
Being able to land from any direction also means planes are not required to fly over residential areas as often, lowering noise pollution.
Even when airports are in heavily-populated areas, the flights can be spread out over a greater number of flight paths so homes around the airfield would share the noise between them rather than the same households having to put up with all of the noise.