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US 10,472,093 B2Granted
Runway arrangement
AssigneeRunway Innovations Limited
InventorsWilliam Dennis Lowe, Peter Lonergan, Steven Dennis John Costello, Richard Mark Bostock
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Abstract
A device for marking a runway section, the device comprising: a light source; and a light director.
Claims7
A runway arrangement comprising:
- a first runway section designated as a landing runway section;
- a second runway section designated as a take-off runway section;
- and
- a sterile safety area;
- wherein the first and second runway sections are linked by the sterile safety area;
- wherein the runway arrangement comprises a missed approach point for aircraft due to land on the first runway section, displaced from the start of the second runway section by a distance greater than H/tan θ1;
- wherein H is a safe turning height and θ1 is an angle of ascent following a missed approach;
- and
- wherein H is greater than 150 m and θ1 is greater than 2°.
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A runway arrangement comprising:
- a first runway section;
- a second runway section;
- a sterile safety area;
- and
- a third, laterally offset, runway section;
- wherein the first and second runway sections are linked by the sterile safety area and the second runway section is disposed at an angle to the first runway section;
- and
- wherein the third runway section is arranged such that:
- the third runway section is substantially parallel to, and substantially longitudinally aligned with, said first runway section;
- the third runway section is laterally offset from said first runway section so that the centerline of the laterally offset runway does not intersect with the second runway section;
- and/or the runway arrangement satisfies the inequality D>L sin(θ) or D+O>L·sin(θ), wherein D is the separation between the first runway section and the third runway section, L is the length of the first runway section, θ is the angle between the first runway section and the second runway section, and O is the distance between the centerlines of the first runway section and the second runway section.
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A runway arrangement comprising:
- a first runway section;
- a second runway section disposed at an angle to the first runway section;
- a sterile safety area;
- and
- a third runway section substantially in prolongation of the first runway section, thereby forming a ‘y-shaped’ runway arrangement;
- wherein the first and second runway sections are linked by the sterile safety area;
- and
- wherein the first and third runway sections are linked by the sterile safety area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.