Space-Saving Airports for Tomorrow's Skyways
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Space-Saving Airports for Tomorrow's Skyways
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Space-Saving Airports for Tomorrow's Skyways
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POSTWAR commercial airports will
be models of compactness, efficiency,
and safety, according to Andrew J.
Fairbanks, professor of aeronautical
engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, N. Y., whose concep-
tion of tomorrow's airport is here il-
lustrated. Long runways, expensive
to build and maintain, will be obviated
by catapults, circular take-offs, and
flight-arresting gear, as well as by im-
mobile “carriers” anchored in near-by
rivers. Private flyers will use heli-
copters—and “parking lots.” Any plane
that can stand still in the air, be moved
two feet this way, one foot that way,
and parked like a car, is the ideal ship,
says Professor Fairbanks, for hopping
over to the village for supplies or tak-
ing the kids to the park for a picnic.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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B. G. Seielstad (illustrator)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-07
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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96-97
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 143, n. 1, 1943
