PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Very long runways
View Single Post
Old 18th January 2005 | 07:54
  #16 (permalink)  
Groundloop
25 Anniversary
 
Joined: Aug 1998
Posts: 2,033
Likes: 14
From: London, UK
Can't quite see the relevance in a post above that the shuttle strip at Kennedy conforms to the curvature of the Earth. All runways do!

A perfectly level runway will actually be very slightly curved so that at any point on it the vertical defined by gravity will be at right angles to the runway surface i.e. a level runway follows the curvature of the Earth.
Groundloop is offline