We are facing times when the demand for commercial airplanes will be extremely low - you only don't want to forget all the interesting and valuable technologies which make you able to produce flying machines that can carry hundreds of passengers at respectable speeds...
Right now, I have an idea how the number of runways which can serve the largest airplanes as well was able to be increased dramatically...
The solution is quite simple... When you build new highways then you should plan into them as many fully straight sections of a length of 5 km as it is only possible... Among these sections there could be as many curves of the highway as many are necessary... That means a new highway didn't connect 2 cities or other meaningful spots of a country as one continuous band but it consisted of long and straight sections (the built-in runways) and of more or less curved sections... Naturally, you could build such highways only on plain areas where the aircraft whose wings are even wider than a runway were not disturbed by any elements of the countryside...
My idea is about European-style highways where the 2 directions of the road are separated from each other by aluminium barriers (technical separation) and bushes (visual separation)... This way of separating both driving directions from each other could remain in usage on the more or less curved sections, naturally... On the entirely straight sections of a length of 5 km of the highway where airplanes should be able to land another way of separating of the 2 driving directions was needed... Between the 2 sides of the highway there should be a concrete or asphalted ditch of a depth of 20 cm (a result of a computer) in a lively yellow colour... The lively yellow colour would solve the visual separation of both sides (according to me you avoid to look into the direction of the rather disgusting colour) and the ditch of a depth of 20 cm would solve the technical separation, even if it had curved edges (such a deep ditch should catch any limousines and off-roaders would be turned over at highway speeds hopefully - aluminium barriers spike through a car)... When a passenger aircraft tried to land on this long and straight section of a new highway then its front landing gear would run gently into the central ditch with curved edges (as the tyres of a passenger aircraft are much bigger than those of a passenger car) that gave the airplane a soft leading straight forward but the main landing gear in the middle of the passenger aircraft was not harmed at all because of the slight slanting of the aircraft to the front (a result of the computer)... Of course, you would need taxi ways, aprons and hangars next to the built-in runways, too where you were able to store an airplane and several ones, respectively...
Using built-in runway sections of new highways both aircraft of airlines and private jets could much more often take off and land then before (while a highway needed to be closed temporarily during the landing or take-off of an airplane)... This is true both for planned or scheduled flights and emergency landings...
Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team
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