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Originally Posted by A930Rocket
Why do some airports have landing strips at angles? Is it because of wind direction?
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yup
RAF requirement for Class A airfield
heavy laden prop bombers at the time really didn't have that much excess power to take off, and to much sidewind was a problem..
so with 3 run ways they could always get take off wind within reasonable parameters, at most 30 degrees off the nose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_A_airfield
all became irrelevant with the jet age..