Transport
Why airports were once designed with circular runways
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In an attempt to permanently eliminate the profound danger of unpredictable crosswinds, mid-century civil engineers aggressively proposed building perfectly circular airport runways. This banked, bowl-like layout theoretically allowed pilots to safely land from absolutely any geometric angle, though immense spatial requirements and pilot vertigo ultimately grounded the concept.
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