[HN Gopher] Fixed-Wing Runway Design
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       Fixed-Wing Runway Design
        
       Author : DarkContinent
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-12-23 19:41 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | ortusdux wrote:
       | I find it fascinating that runways have to be renamed in response
       | to magnetic north shifting over time.
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       | https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/airport-runway-names-shift-ma...
        
         | macintux wrote:
         | CGP Grey has tackled this in his usual brilliant rabbit hole
         | fashion: https://youtu.be/HSRmfNDk87s
        
       | broadsidepicnic wrote:
       | While interesting (as I'm an airline pilot), is this hacker-news-
       | interesting, per se?
       | 
       | I come here to read news about Doom running on a cucumber, not
       | piloting stuff.
        
         | macintux wrote:
         | Reading about how other industries have created tight controls,
         | standardization, good documentation is always of some interest.
        
         | forbiddenlake wrote:
         | On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
         | That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to
         | reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that
         | gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
         | 
         | - From The Guidelines
        
         | the__alchemist wrote:
         | I will take this any day over the SAAS/VC/AI stuff.
        
         | dzink wrote:
         | This is very interesting - engineering is tackling problems
         | others have had to tackle before. With anything from drone
         | economy to personal aircraft coming to life in the near future,
         | to new gear being designed, somebody on HN is working on it.
        
       | azalemeth wrote:
       | I'd be interested to know what the material differences are
       | between the US DoD standards and FAA/ICAO standards (the article
       | hints that there are) - and also what the difference is between
       | these and a "landing zone" where I imagine it's a grass strip
       | somewhere distant. That's a scenario that naively to be seems to
       | be more likely to be temporarily made and therefore in need of
       | standards documents...
        
       | howard941 wrote:
       | You might be interested in the Airman's Info Manual section 2-3-3
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       | https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
        
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