ark@rabbit.UUCP (11/03/83)
A 10,000 foot runway is not unreasonable for a large commercial airport. Newark has 9500 feet, Kennedy has more than 14,000. Even Stewart Airport up in Newburgh has 11,500. For smaller fry, Teterboro has 7,000 and Morristown has 6,000.
parnass@ihuxf.UUCP (Robert S. Parnass, AJ9S @ Bell Labs, Naperville, IL) (11/03/83)
"A 10,000 foot runway is not unreasonable for a
large commercial airport..... Even Stewart Airport
up in Newburgh has 11,500...."
Isn't Stewart Airport a converted military base (Stewart Air
Force Base)? If this is true, it may explain the 11,500
foot runway.
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Robert S. Parnass, AT&T Bell Laboratories, ihnp4!ihuxf!parnass (312)979-5760 ark@rabbit.UUCP (11/04/83)
I previously mentioned that Stewart Airport in Newburgh NY has 11,500 feet of runway, and Robert Parnass pointed out that that airport is a converted air force base. Might that not explain the length of the runway? Well, it might, but it doesn't: when the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority took over the airport (I think it had had at least one other owner after the Air Force, but I'm not sure), it had less than 10,000 feet of runway. The addition was made well after it had been converted to civilian use.
notes@ucbcad.UUCP (11/10/83)
#R:rabbit:-216100:ucbesvax:7500045:000:730 ucbesvax!turner Nov 3 17:29:00 1983 Re: runway length in Grenada Having just returned from a public symposium on "Central America and the Cold War", I have a new rumor to add on this count: the airport runways in the island nations taking part in the invasion are about the same length as the one that was being built in Grenada. I think we should defer all further remarks and questions on this point to a civil engineering type who has actually helped design a runway. Certainly the administration will use esoteric details to build its case--the more expertise required to make a sound judgement, the more likely people will simply believe what they're told. Up to a point, anyway. I'm well past that point by now. --- Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)