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Old 16th Mar 2017, 05:17
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innuendo
 
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Another idea would be to use say, 3 runways offset by 60 degrees, ensuring that at worst, the crosswind would be at worst 30 degrees off the nose ... I doubt it has been tried though
Airfields with runways as a connected triangle were pretty common in Canada especially in the west where a lot of training was done during and after WWII.

Even as late as the fifties and sixties the format was in use. RCAF 2FTS Moose Jaw where a lot of the sixties training was done was a triangle.

The format became a couple of parallel runways rather than the triangle, probably as it could accommodate more traffic.
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