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Show AIRPORT DESIGNED LIKE THE BEEHIVE Novel Terminals Proposed by New Yorkers. -few lork. In n few years the air traveler may look down and regard a beehive on the earth with the same joyful anticipation that an ocean traveler trav-eler sights land. For the beehive, one of the oldest forms of architecture, Inspired the newest plan for the nation's newest need, the airport, and one has been designed by Frances Really and E. I'. Goodrich, New York architect and city planner. Goodrich Is In Chita, having been commissioned by the Chinese government govern-ment as consulting engineer in the development de-velopment of a modern seaport at Canton and the laying out of a modern mod-ern capital city at Nanking. His plans call for aviation development and he will nse the beehive airport as a basis for this phase. This new aviation terminal strives to become an architectural asset rather than a liability. And It looks ahead to the time when air travel will be much more common than today, bleally said. Come and Go System. "It is designed ho that one-way traffic becomes an automatic feature," explained Keally. "Twenty-two airplanes air-planes and a dirigible can land while 22 airplanes can take off all at the same moment. "The average train leaving Grand Central station carries between 600 and 700 passengers ; thus ( the airport air-port can handle about the same amount of traffic. "The design la made so as to focus and clear from one point all the high speed traffic of the city. Thus, vehicular tunnels ' and subwsya can come right Into the airport and discharge dis-charge their .. passengers, who then bop off tn planes. "All planes will start from and arrive ar-rive at four terminals, which meet In a huge rotunda. Either the east-west east-west or north-south terminals may be used to the advantage of the wind direction." The design calls for an airport 6,000 feet tn diameter, the landing surface of which ts covered with cinders, with enough space left for m DM 4 J. -l. luunaf mAI mi mue lift emu plane, the length of the runway being be-ing !!,500 feet "Tbe landing surface has a 2V6 per cent grade so that airplanes arriving will be helped by gravity to stop and airplanes taking off will be helped by a down-htll run," Keally continued. "A huge dome will cover the rotunda ro-tunda with storage space for several thousand airplanes supplied by two-story two-story hangars. . Above the dome will be a mooring mast for a dirigible and the top of the mast will be exactly ex-actly 1,000 feet from the gronnd, the highest structure la the world. A City Itsslf. "Tbe outer crust of the dome-think dome-think of It as the Inner and outer layers of a thermos bottle will be fashioned Into a hotel containing several sev-eral hundred rooms. Each fifty story of this hotel will have a terrace so that guests can watch Incoming and outgoing planes. "Passengers who arrive by dirigible dirigi-ble will descend to hotel oi to rotunda ro-tunda by elevators. In the rotunda will be ticket offices and an outgoing and Incoming waiting room, with public pub-lic health. Immigration and a room In which traffic men of the airport will get their Instructions from men In tbe tower. In other words, the airport will be a city Ic itself." |