Sentence examples similar to length runway from inspiring English sources

But no new full-length runway has been built since Heathrow opened in January 1946.

Heathrow could be allowed to build a third full-length runway, west or north-west of the existing pair.

Success on a shoestring, you might call it, since not a single, new, full-length runway has been built in south-east England since the war.

That is why only one new full-length runway has been built in Britain since the second world war.Moving Heathrow west sounds almost too good to be true.

China is planning 17 new runways while there hasn't been an extra full-length runway in the South-east for 70 years.

The Department for Transport said: "In a major boost for the UK economy the government today announced its support for a new runway at Heathrow – the first full-length runway in the south-east since the second world war".

But whoever forms the next government will need to make strategic decisions for the next few decades on where those runways should be, particularly in the south-east where no new full-length runway has been built since 1945.

Pros and cons: this is the nearest to the former third runway plan canned in 2010 - 800m longer though it still isn't quite a full-length runway as far as the very biggest planes go.

The government said the decision to expand Heathrow and the construction of the first full-length runway in the south-east since the second world war would be a major boost to the UK economy.

The new Harrier, on the other hand, is both cheap (comparatively so, at $83 million each) and doesn't require a full-length runway to operate.

The military were interested in jet propulsion as a means of getting aircraft quickly airborne where there was insufficient room for a full-length runway, and gave the Rocket Research Group $1,000 to put together a proposal on the feasibility of Jet-Assisted Take Off (JATO) by June 1939, making Parsons et al. the first U.S. government-sanctioned rocket research group.