AIRPORT PLANNING

2.  Airport Engineering encompasses the
planning, design, and construction of
terminals, runways, and navigation aids to
provide for passenger and freight service.
 An airport is a facility where passengers
connect from ground transportation to air
transportation
 AIRFIELD is an area where an aircraft can
land and take off, which may or may not be
equipped with any navigational aids or
markings

3.  One system of transportation which tries to
improve the accessibility to inaccessible
areas
 Provides continuous connectivity over water
and land
 Provide relief during emergencies and better
compared to others some times
 Saves productive time, spent in journey
 Increases the demand of specialized skill
work force

4.  Helps tourism, generates foreign reserves
 Requires heavy funds during provision and maintenance
 Highly dependent on weather conditions compared to
other modes
 Requires highly sophisticated machinery
 Adds to outward flow of foreign exchange
 Purchase of equipment, airbuses etc.
 Safety provisions are not adequate.
 Providing a support system during the flight is complicate
 Specific demarcation of flight paths and territories is
essential

5.  1903 – first successful flight by Wilbur and
Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
 1909 – Louis Bleriot crossed English channel
to England
 1911 – Post was carried by air in India from
Allahabad to Naini (pilot: Henri Pequet)
crossing Ganga
 1912 – Flight between Delhi and Karachi
 1914 – Air passenger transport began in
Germany

6.  1918 – first international service between
France and Spain
 1919 – London – Paris flight
 1919 – International Commission on Air
Navigation (ICAN) was established
 1919 – 6 European airlines formed in Hague
the International Air Traffic Association (IATA)
to control the movement of air traffic and
have a coordinated approach

7.  1928 – Havana Convention on civil aviation
 1929 – Warsaw convention on civil aviation
 1944 – international civil aviation convention
 1944 – Chicago convention, establishing provisional
ICAO (international civil aviation organization)
 1945 – International Air Transport Association (IATA)
established in meeting at Havana, Cuba
 1947 – ICAO was established as a body of United
Nations

8.  27, July 1949 – worlds first jet airliner made
its journey from hatfield airport
 1954 – Boeing Dash 80 type prototype, B707
first flight
 1969 – concorde first flight
 2006 – Airbus A328 made first flight (one of
the biggest passenger air craft i.e., 800
persons)

9.  1911 – post was carried by air in India from
Allahabad to Naini
 1912 – flight between Delhi and Karachi
 1927 – Civil Aviation Department was
established
 1929 – Regular air service between Delhi and
Karachi
 1932 – Tata airways ltd was setup
 1933 – Indian trans-continental airways ltd
was formed

10.  1938 – 153 aircrafts were registered
 1946 – Air transport licensing board was
established
 1947 – Tata changed its name to Air India Ltd
 1948 – Air India International ltd was
established by government
 1953 – Air Transport Corporation bill was
made, provision for establishing two
corporations, one for the domestic services
and other for the international services.

11.  1972 - The International Airport Authority of
India (IAAI) was setup
 to coordinate the international aviation from
different locations of the country
 1981 -Vayudoot service was started. It
merged into Indian Airlines in 1993
 1985 - Air taxi policy
 1994 -Airport Authority of India (AAI) was
formed by merging International Airport
Authority of India (IAAI) and National Airports
Authority (NAA).

12.  Controls overall air navigation in india
 Constituted by an act of parliament and it
came into being on 1st April, 1995
 Formed by merging NAA (National Airport
Authority) and IAAI (International Airport
Authority of India)
 Functions of AAI
 Control and management of the Indian airspace
extending beyond the territory limits
 Design, development and operation of domestic
and international airports
 Construction and management of facilities

13.  Development of cargo ports and facilities
 Provision of passenger facilities and information
systems
 Expansion and strengthening of operating area
 Provision of visual aids
 Provision of communication and navigational aids
(ex: Radar systems)

14. Reference: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/airplane.html

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