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  2. Runway - Wikipedia

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    Runway dimensions vary from as small as 245 m (804 ft) long and 8 m (26 ft) wide in smaller general aviation airports, to 5,500 m (18,045 ft) long and 80 m (262 ft) wide at large international airports built to accommodate the largest jets, to the huge 11,917 m × 274 m (39,098 ft × 899 ft) lake bed runway 17/35 at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

  3. Airfield traffic pattern - Wikipedia

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    An Airbus A330-300 of Turkish Airlines on short final to Heathrow Airport, immediately before landing.. An airfield traffic pattern is a standard path followed by aircraft when taking off or landing while maintaining visual contact with the airfield.

  4. List of longest runways - Wikipedia

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    ^D Paved runway 14R/32L, closed (length approximate) ^E Unpaved runway located on Rosamond Lake and not marked on the Federal Aviation Administration airport diagram. [14] ^F Paved runway 14/32, closed (new 4,500 m (14,800 ft) runway constructed)

  5. Aeronautical chart conventions (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The size of each sectional is designed to be "arm's width" when completely unfolded. The "northern" half of the section is on one side of the chart, and the "southern" on the reverse. The edges between north and south are designed with a calibrated overlap that permits plotting extensions of course lines from one side to the other, once the ...

  6. Class A airfield - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of RAF Exeter airfield on 20 May 1944, showing the triangular layout of the runways and the encircling (light-coloured) perimeter track.. Class A airfields were World War II (WW2) military installations constructed to specifications laid down by the British Air Ministry Directorate General of Works (AMDGW).

  7. Runway visual range - Wikipedia

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    A pilot's view of Lisbon Airport's runway 21 in fog; runway visual range is about 200 m (660 ft). In aviation, the runway visual range (RVR) is the distance over which a pilot of an aircraft on the centreline of the runway can see the runway surface markings delineating the runway or the lights delineating the runway or identifying its centre line.

  8. List of shortest runways - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the shortest airport runways in the world. While most modern commercial aircraft require a paved runway of at least 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in length, many early aircraft were designed to operate from unprepared strips that could be improvised in small spaces.

  9. Displaced threshold - Wikipedia

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    This is because aircraft coming in to land need to avoid the Shiv statue, which is located near runway 29L. [5] [6] Runway 22R at John F. Kennedy International Airport has a displaced threshold due to noise abatement. [citation needed] This shortens the landing distance available to just 7,795 ft (2,376 m) for the 12,079 ft (3,682 m) runway.