Re:Engineer defends concept circular runway idea
by burfog on Saturday April 22, 2017 @01:32AM
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The Romans would put civil engineers underneath newly-built bridges, then march the army over. Very few low-quality bridges were built, and nobody built more than one low-quality bridge.
This sort of thing works for planes too.
Because a human driving the plane has a vested interest in surviving the landing.
A person who writes buggy landing software, or an operator "piloting" it from the ground can get another job if they fail.