Take-off and landing site
A take-off and landing site is usually a prepared location at which an aircraft or spacecraft takes off or lands .
In industrialized countries, take-off and landing sites are usually provided with an infrastructure , e.g. B. Fastenings, personnel, lighting systems , navigation aids , air traffic control , towers , radar systems , hangars , filling stations and service vehicles. In remote locations, however, the site can only consist of a more or less paved sand, grass or gravel road. In the parlance of international air traffic , such places are called airstrips .
The most famous places are the runways at airfields , which are mainly used for air travel , air cargo handling and military aviation .
Furnishing
The type and scope of equipment at the take-off and landing areas depends on the size and the flying objects.
- In the case of aircraft , with the exception of vertical take-offs when taking off, this is an airfield or aircraft carrier , cf. Runway .
- Airships use an anchor mast for takeoff.
- Helicopters usually use a helipad or a heliport (also for take-off).
- In space travel , this is the launch pad / launch tower / supply tower , but also completely unprepared places on celestial bodies without any infrastructure.
- Paragliders need a slope where you can run up.
- Parachute jumpers need a safe place to land, i.e. no forests, roads or cliffs.