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The Aerodrome Problem Related to Aircraft Design and Operation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

R. H. Ayers
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The Aerodrome, as the point of contact between the aircraft and the world of reality, has to a large extent been taken for granted. The designer regards it as the base for prototype tests and the airline operator as his aerial railway station. It is my intention to show that aerodrome development is at a critical stage of evolution on this side of the Atlantic, that many of the related problems do concern the aircraft designer and operator, and that if these problems are not given consideration, difficulties will be encountered in civil operations.

To quote an example; the optimum aircraft type to serve a system of air routes can be worked out taking into consideration the range required, payload and speed, but if the aircraft ultimately ordered and produced cannot safely operate from the aerodromes to be served because of the runway length and approaches, then the operations will either have to be reorganised or continued without due regard for safety.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 53 , Issue 465 , September 1949 , pp. 901 - 905
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1949

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* This standard is now incorporated in legislation, but the 50 ft. screen landing distance has to be 70 per cent, of the available runway in I.F.R. conditions and 80 per cent, in V.F.R. conditions.