Airport Engineering

INTRODUCTION

LECTURE 1

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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
Class Participation: 10
Midterm: 30
End term: 40

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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 (2005

earthquake, 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 sophisticated

equipment
 Operations highly dependent on weather conditions
 Safety in air
 Designation of flight paths and territories

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 BRIEF HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE

 1903 - Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville Wright - Bicycle

repairer) first flight in North Carolina

 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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 BRIEF 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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 BRIEF 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 body of UN

 1950s – Introduction of jet engines in 1950’s.

 1958 – First commercial flight of Boeing 707

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 BRIEF 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

 2000 ONWARDS ???? (Search)

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 Thank you

Questions?????

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