# Circular Runways

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circular-runways/782301>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 16, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circular-runways/782301 "2017-03-16T10:24:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circular-runways/782301/1 "2017-03-16T10:24:00Z")

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I thought this was an interesting idea:

> **[Will circular runways ever take off?](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-39284294)**
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> Could circular runways be the future of air travel? Video journalist Dougal Shaw went to meet aviation expert Henk Hesselink of the Netherlands Aerospace Centre.

The BBC article is pretty positive but I was wondering what people here thought of it, there must be some drawbacks or it would probably have been used before?

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circular-runways/782301/2 "2017-03-16T11:09:54Z")

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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20070215#post20070215](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20070215#post20070215)

Existing thread.

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**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circular-runways/782301/3 "2017-03-16T11:11:12Z")

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> [@AK84](#):
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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20070215#post20070215](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20070215#post20070215)
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> Existing thread.

Wow, sorry!

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**Author:** ![igor\_frankensteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/839c29/32.png) [@igor\_frankensteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/igor_frankensteen)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circular-runways/782301/4 "2017-03-16T11:11:31Z")

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Adding more complexity to the most challenging part of flight is counter intuitive.