Monday, 7 January 2008

Aerotropolis

A beautifully illustrated vision of the metropolitan airport of tomorrow as seen from 1939.

It is utterly criminal that little things like the realities of turbulence, wind shear, basic principles of airport design and building engineering made this sort of airport-sprouting megabuilding impossible long before the runway needs of jetliners were even dreamed of.

1 comment:

jayessell said...

Does the landing field swivel to face into the wind or do they rotate the entire million ton building?

What? No catapult?
(Not needed if you have a skijump-like ramp.)

Paint the whole thing Grey and it's Vogoneqse.