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8/13/2019 Lec 1 Airport engineering
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INTRODUCTION
Airport Engineering
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
Covers major aspects of airport design from
fundamentals to modern technological developments
Aircrafts, airports design features, terminal buildings
Development of air transport, its importance
National and international organizations
Covers regulations, standards and specifications
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MARKS DISTRIBUTION
Credit Hours: 3+0
Total Marks 100
Quiz 1: 10
Quiz 2: 10
Midterm: 30
End term: 40 Attendance + Class Participation: 10
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RECOMMENDED OOKS
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IMPORTANCE OF AIR TRANSPORTATION
Accessibility to inaccessible areas
Fastest mode of transportation
Connectivity over land and water
Enhance international travel (tourism etc.)
Relief during emergencies and natural disasters (2005earthquake, 2010 floods)
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LIMITATIONS OF AIR TRANSPORT
Requires huge funds
High initial construction cost (land cost)
High maintenance cost
Requires highly skilled workforce and sophisticatedequipment
Operations highly dependent on weather conditions
Safety in air
Designation of flight paths and territories
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RIEF HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE
1903 - Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville Wright - Bicyclerepairer) first flight in North Carolina (120 ft)
1909 – French pilot Louis Belroit crossed English Channel
to England
1912 – Flight between Delhi and Karachi
1914 – Air passenger transport began in Germany
1918 – US Postal Service (Washington DC and New York)
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RIEF HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE
1918 – First International service between France and Spain
1919 – the International Commission on Air Navigation (ICAN)was established
1919 – Six European airlines formed in Hague the International Air Traffic Association (IATA)
1919 – London – Paris flight
1927 – Service between London to New York.
1927 – Pan American service Miami-La Havana (Cuba).
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RIEF HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE
1928 – Havana Convention on Civil Aviation
1929 – Warsaw Convention on Civil Aviation
1930 – Round the World flight
1944 – International Civil Aviation Conference
1944 – Chicago Convention, establishing provisional ICAO
1947 – The International Civil Aviation Organization was established as a bodyof UN
1950s – Introduction of jet engines in 1950’s.
1958 – First commercial flight of Boeing 707
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RIEF HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE
1969 – Concorde first flight
1969 – Boeing B747-100 fly
1988 – Airbus A320 “fly by wire” enters service
1990 – Commercial Airlines world wide carried more than 1.0 billion
passengers almost 1.1 trillion passenger-miles: cargo 44 billion ton-mile
2006 – Airbus A380 introduced
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