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Originally Posted by Seahawk
NAS North Island in the 1930
I was stationed there in the 1980's - things had changed  |
The large ashpalt circle is what was known as a landing mat and also served navy blimps. Landing mats were often large square areas with painted runways in several directions. Not a circular runway. Just check the windsock and land parallel to the sock, into the wind. (See: Joeaksa above)
Circular runway is a dumb idea. (20,000 hours multi-engine turbojet transport.) (But that may not mean anything.)