Before land, I designed somewhere to land.
An annex aerodrome for domestic flights, so El Dorado could keep its runways for the world.
It was designed around one aircraft.
Beside El Dorado, across the Río Bogotá: a runway for domestic flights.
Civil engineering thesis · 2022
An annex aerodrome for domestic flights
Begun at the University of the Basque Country; finished and presented at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia.
Read the thesisPDF · 5.5 MB · CC BY-NC-NDSome lines stay with you.
Designed and programmed by Yeraldin Soto
The numbers the drawing was built on.
- Design aircraft
- Airbus A321-200 · 35.8 m span · 83,000 kgpp.17–20
- Reference code
- 4Cp.19
- Runway 13C–31C
- 2,102.22 m × 45 mTables 3, 7 · pp.20–24
- Declared distances
- TORA, ASDA, LDA 2,102.22 m · TODA 2,402.22 mTable 7 · p.24
- Runway strip
- 150 m wide · 60 m beyond each endTable 5 · p.22
- RESA
- 240 m × 90 mTable 6 · p.23
- Clearway · stopway
- 300 m × 150 m · 341 m × 45 mTable 6 · p.23
- Parallel taxiway
- 15 m wide · 190 m from the runway centreline · holding point at 90 mTable 8 · pp.25–26
- Holding bay
- 61 m long · curve radius 69.24 mTable 8 · p.26
- Rapid exits
- 2 · 30° · radius 550 m · exit speed 96.3 km/hTable 8 · p.28
- Design conditions
- 2,548 m elevation · reference temperature 20 °CTable 4 · p.21
- Cross slopes
- Runway 1.1% · strip 1.5%Table 14 · p.34
Every value is from the thesis, cited by table and page. The annex sits beside El Dorado as the thesis’s site figure shows it (Ilustración 1, p.14); the spacing of El Dorado’s runways comes from their published coordinates; the city, river and hills around them are schematic.
Aircraft land into the wind.
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