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ENGINEERING: Continued From Page Eight

The Construction Of London's

Giant Airport

New

By John Toller

London Airpart is rising from near the city, large enough to the gravel pits, muni flats, ditches accommodate the Inrgest types of and ponds of Middlesex to bellary alreratt. Later It was come one of the great crossroads visualised to become Britain's in-

of International air travel,

Eventually when In com, ploted in. 1933—It will be capable 1 serving 4,000 East and West -bound passengers every hour.

The great field will cover seven square miles in arcu, located 19 miles from Charing Cross, centre of London, and its Bra cost has been estimated between *#20,000,000 and 30.000,000.

the

The airport, formerly known as Heathrow, had a genesis in the Itoyal Airforce's need for a gold

ternational airport.

Now the British Government, carrying out, this plan, literally is moving two rivers and erasing two or more villages to permit runways

the largest conceivable planes.

Work was begun in May, 1944. The war ended before the com- pletion of the arst runway and the airfield was placed for de velopment under the the Ministry of Civil Aviation on January 1, 1940.

to be bullt for

5

213 #

The Airport, however, already using ground control approach (CCA) facilities, the RAF** wartime bad-weather favourite intely landing ald.

a paving for the terminal area | known as "Fide who was aban- and taxi-ways,

Also during the second stage-dosed because of the high cost of awaiting the American, devolop- expected to be completed in 1040 operation. The Ministry says it is -four runways will be added, a ment of another system before will a large part of the Central considering its use inter Apron, parts of the terminal buildings and 170 meron of craft maintenance arena,

In the third and final stage of development thres more runway will be built making a total of

A Pan-American clipper 14]. nine, and the Bath Road, a motn

first passenger East-West trafic artery will be fanting under the newly-installed diverted to the northern boundary system. of the airfield,

Levelling of

ground and the In the airport area control of

the flow filling in of ditches and ponds is of the rivers Longford and Duke progressing as is the construction of Northumberland will be alter of pre-fabricated buildings and ed. The villages of Sipson and other In the early days of mid and part of Narlington

temporary installations wil be do which give the airport the ap- tents, the task was to dispose of mol

molished, and a third village, 100,000,000 gallons of water, Harmondsworth, may be seriously arance of an emergency landinge.

fold. install drainage system and affected.

A real need now in housing for experts designed the pro- the thousands of men and womer excavate 2,000,000 tons of earth As exp and gravel. The Brat three main lect, many plans were prepared who will be employed on airerafi runways absorbed 1,114,000 and some discarded to prevent maintenance......... traffic clarks, square yards of concrete 12 inches unnecessary destruction of private customs, and immigration officials Precisa Limited a Swiss thick.

property.

The completion of the first of Health has called a conference and in other duties. The Ministry Company, manufacturing preci- sion machinery, is producing and have nine runways. varying in stage has permitted a maximum of focal authorities to plan the adding machine, built on the 10 length from 9,000 to 5,300 featment, landings key principle, operated either The main runway can be extend manually or by electricty.

ed to 15,000 feet if the noad The "Perclas”. keyboard has should arise. the usual cyphers from 1 to 9, and addilion, there is an ex- tra row of keys of 1, 2 and 3 cyphers, namely zeros, as fol- Inws: 0.00.000. These addition- al keys are the means of effect- ing a considerable saving of time when writing numbers of several cyphers, such as 100, 1000, 10,000 etc.

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the

neza-

Eventually it is planned to

The three main runways are alt 300 feet wide and have been con- structed with a view to taking the heaviest aircraft now design. ed, including the Brabazon 1, now being constructed by the Bristol

Alteraft Company.

new honies.

aircraft mova- capacity of 40

and take-offs) an hour, rising to 50. Stage Two

While plans for the airport are will allow 90, increasing to 100 per fluid, the scheme includes permanent buildings, Intel, en- air movements in an hour, and tertainments, visitors' promenade, Stage Three, 160 or more. underground roads, subway tran It is estimated that with an it and other facilities, which will average of 20 passengers per air-make, the airport craft in Stage One, Increasing to city in itself. 26 In Stage Two and Three, the

It is an ambitious projet capacity of the airport will be the world as the "front door maximum hourly passenger designed to equal any airport In 1,000 in Stage Stage Two and 4,000

in Britain and the gateway to the In Stage European continent Associated Three.

Press

Ono, 2,500

The Brabazon is of 130 tons gross weight and is designed to carry 120 passengers seated or 72

Air Ministry planners rejected Atlantic service. Actually the run-runways in a tangential pattern, in siseping berths, in the North

as dangerous a scheme to install ways will take an over all weight like spokes in a wheel. It was of 300.000 pounds.

argued that if landing plane overshot its runway It might cross the path of an aircraft`ink- ing off, and thought that on can-

air during bad visibility, thern- verging runways, aircraft might collide on the ground or in the fore, the staggered parallel sy tem of runways was decided up- on.

Stage 1 of the construction, 4 riangular palteru of runways The most striking feature of has been finished and all three

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the stage, to reprint in one airoke any be scrapped.to make room for the of figures which you have just nowly-designed terminal which added or subtracted, instead of will cover, 66 acres. Muxt of the having to reprint each figure of concrete surface will be salvaged ! the set separately.

t

Although the "Precisa" is primarily an adding and sub- tracting machine, a repeat key permits multiplication by a very simple operation which is spo eially effective in the case of the electric machine.

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