Airwave From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 1117 posts, RR: 3 Posted (7 years 2 months 18 hours ago) and read 1864 times:
I tried doing a search on this and I really couldn't come up with anything, so I turn to the legions with my question.
I'm curious to know: do any cruciform runway configurations exist anywhere in the world?
By cruciform, I mean a geometric cross: two lines bisecting each other at a 90 degree angle. I'm more interested in the addition-sign (+) kind than the more commonly-thought of Christian obelus (†) interpretation.
As a bonus, do any actually fall on the four cardinal compass points?
Any light that can be shed on this will be most appreciated.
Airwave
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DL787932ER From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 597 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (7 years 2 months 18 hours ago) and read 1792 times:
Do they have to be commercial airports? There are hundreds of general aviation airports in the U.S. alone that have runways that intersect at 90 degrees. It used to be quite common to have a "crosswind runway" so that planes could always take off and land pretty much into the wind.
2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62 Reply 13, posted (7 years 2 months 17 hours ago) and read 1661 times:
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...And good 'ol 2H4. Ironically, despite having lived only a few miles from the airport, I didn't realize the identifier was 2H4 until after registering my username.
Airwave From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 1117 posts, RR: 3 Reply 17, posted (7 years 2 months 17 hours ago) and read 1581 times:
Quoting 2H4 (Reply 13): ...And good 'ol 2H4. Ironically, despite having lived only a few miles from the airport, I didn't realize the identifier was 2H4 until after registering my username. biggrin
Lol. I love how it's a grass field too. Ahh, takes you back, don't it?
After looking at all the airports noted, I saw that BHX and GRR were obelus in pattern; YHZ and GSO resemble a capital "T"; and MDW and 2H4 make great Greek crosses (your standard "+"), with a few of SFO's runways representative, too.
YYC is most interesting in its own right, as it's almost a backwards Slavonic cross; it's just missing one short cross piece. What's more, some of those airports that are x-ish make great saltires on the landscape.
I'm amazed that there are several N/S-E/W airports out there. What's more, I never realized I regularly flew into one of 'em (CVG)!
I realize that runways crossing and intersecting each other is a pretty standard affair, but as a kid, I remember that many books, movies, and pictures pretty consistently depicted airports in a cruciform manner, and I was never sure if this ever carried over to the real world.
Thanks to you guys, now I know. And knowing is half the battle.
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Timz From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 6468 posts, RR: 8 Reply 20, posted (7 years 2 months 15 hours ago) and read 1460 times:
But as to the original question, no, I can't think of an airport that currently has a pair of runways that are perpendicular bisectors of each other. Offhand I don't know of an airport in the past, either, but I'll look a bit.
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