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Most airports design their runways so that planes are able to take off and land into the wind as much as possible.

Why are many paved runways made out of concrete and not asphalt?

How do the surroundings influence where airports are built?

 

 

What length of a runway is required to land a small plane? To land a space shuttle?

Why do airport runways use 36 instead of 0?

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