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Fixed-Wing Runway Design

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Re: Fixed-Wing Runway Design

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Post by macintux »

ortusdux wrote: post #2

I find it fascinating that runways have to be renamed in response to magnetic north shifting over time. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/airport-runway-names-shift-ma...

CGP Grey has tackled this in his usual brilliant rabbit hole fashion: https://youtu.be/HSRmfNDk87s

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broadsidepicnic wrote: post #4

While interesting (as I'm an airline pilot), is this hacker-news-interesting, per se? I come here to read news about Doom running on a cucumber, not piloting stuff.

Reading about how other industries have created tight controls, standardization, good documentation is always of some interest.

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Post by forbiddenlake »

broadsidepicnic wrote: post #4

While interesting (as I'm an airline pilot), is this hacker-news-interesting, per se? I come here to read news about Doom running on a cucumber, not piloting stuff.

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

- From The Guidelines

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Post by dzink »

broadsidepicnic wrote: post #4

While interesting (as I'm an airline pilot), is this hacker-news-interesting, per se? I come here to read news about Doom running on a cucumber, not piloting stuff.

This is very interesting - engineering is tackling problems others have had to tackle before. With anything from drone economy to personal aircraft coming to life in the near future, to new gear being designed, somebody on HN is working on it.

Re: Fixed-Wing Runway Design

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Post by azalemeth »

I'd be interested to know what the material differences are between the US DoD standards and FAA/ICAO standards (the article hints that there are) - and also what the difference is between these and a "landing zone" where I imagine it's a grass strip somewhere distant. That's a scenario that naïvely to be seems to be more likely to be temporarily made and therefore in need of standards documents...
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