Show AIRPORT DESIGNED LIKE THE BEEHIVE novel terminals proposed by new yorkers sew new york lork io in t q few years the air traveler may look down regard a beehive on the earth with tile the some same joyful anticipation chri an ocean traveler sights land for the beehive one of the oldest forms of architecture inspired the newest plan for the nations newest need the airport ani one has been designed by prances frances keally and 13 P goodrich new yolk architect and city planner goodrich Is in chir 8 having been commissioned by the chinese government as consulting eug engineer ineer in the development of a modern seaport at canton and the laying out of a modern modera capital city at nis its plans call tor for aviation development and he will use the beehive airport as a basis for this phase this new aviation terril rial strives to become an architectural asset lather than a liability and it looks ahead to the elie time when air travel will be much more common than today keally said come and go system it Is designed so 40 that one baj way traffic becomes an automatic feature explained keilly twenty two airplanes and a dirigible can call land while 22 airplanes can take off all at tile the same moment the average train leaving grand central station carries between COO and passengers thus the airport can handle about t the lie same amount of traffic the design Is made so BO as to focus and clear from one point all the high speed traffic of the city thus vehicular tunnels ind ni subways can call come right into tile the carport fr nort and discharge their passengers who then hop olt off in planes all planes will start from and arrive atour terminals which meet in a huge rotunda either the east west or north south terminals muy may be use used d to the advantage of the wind direction the design calls for an airport feet in diameter the landin landing surface of which Is covered with cinders with enough space left tor for a runway feet wide for each plane the length of the runway being 2500 feet the landing surface has a 2 per centigrade cent grade so that airplanes arriving will be helped by gravity to atop and airplanes taking olt off will be helped by bill run keally continued A huge dome will cover the rotunda with storage space for several thousand airplanes supplied by two story hangars above the dome will be a mooring mast for a dirigible and ill the 0 top odthe of the mast will be exactly 1000 feet from the ground the highest structure in the world A city itself the outer crust of the dome think of it us as the inner and outer layers of a thermos bottle will be fashioned into a hotel containing several hundred rooms rach cadi fifty story of this hotel will hare hav e a terrace so that guests can watch incoming tin and outgoing planes passengers who arrive by dirigible will descend to hotel ol 01 to rotunda by bi elevators in the rotunda I 1 will be ticket offices and an outgoing and anil In incoming cAming waiting room with public henith immigration and a room in will h traffic men of the airport will get their instructions from men la it tile the tower ower in other words the will be a city it ir itself |