An innovative proposal for the needed expansion of Amsterdam Airport is the Rotating Floating Airport (RFA) invented by Van Den Noort Innovations BV in the Netherlands. The entire structure would resemble a giant propeller lodged in the ground with arrival and departure lounges, transport stations below sea level and air traffic landing and taking-off on its blades.
Van den Noort Innovations BV  clipped from www.noort-innovations.nlRotating Floating Airport - RFA Van den Noort Innovations BV in collaboration with Royal Haskoning Technical Engineering and the Technical University in Delft/Holland have developed the Rotating Floating Airport concept. This concept consists of a purely afloat platform and runway system rotating 360 degrees along a "fixed" circular terminal solely constructed on the bottom of the sea.  clipped from www.noort-innovations.nl
clipped from www.noort-innovations.nlFloating Platform The basic construction method is to wet cast the individual cylinders with an integral top slab to be assembled into modules.
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The runways rotate by power propellers turning the runways into the wind direction. clipped from www.noort-innovations.nlRFA Transport system The fixed terminal is constructed in different levels to accommodate a departure and arrival hall with all required facilities along with a subway station connected to the mainland through a 2-line tube.
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