Los Angeles International Airportairport, Los Angeles, California, United States
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles is served by interstate buses and Amtrak intercity passenger rail service, but air travel is by far the most important transport link to outside the region. Los Angeles International Airport (popularly called by its international code, LAX) is one of the world’s largest airports, handling tens of millions of passengers and millions of tons of freight annually. Traffic at LAX keeps...
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runway configuration
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...takeoffs on both runways. Munich Airport exemplifies this type of configuration. Even greater capacity is possible using a four-runway configuration of independent close parallels, as is the case at Los Angeles International Airport. With such a configuration, even under IFR, it is possible for two aircraft to land simultaneously while two other aircraft take off. A number of the world’s largest...
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terminal design
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...Orlando and Tampa in Florida, U.S.—but to some degree the concept has fallen out of favour, having been found difficult to adapt to the changing size of aircraft and wasteful of apron space. Los Angeles International Airport originally had all its aircraft served at satellite buildings, but during the 1980s all satellites were converted to pier structures.
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Los Angeles Los Angeles
Los Angeles is served by interstate buses and Amtrak intercity passenger rail service, but air travel is by far the most important transport link to outside the region. Los Angeles International Airport (popularly called by its international code, LAX) is one of the world’s largest airports, handling tens of millions of passengers and millions of tons of freight annually. Traffic at LAX keeps...
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runway configuration airport
...takeoffs on both runways. Munich Airport exemplifies this type of configuration. Even greater capacity is possible using a four-runway configuration of independent close parallels, as is the case at Los Angeles International Airport. With such a configuration, even under IFR, it is possible for two aircraft to land simultaneously while two other aircraft take off. A number of the world’s largest...
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terminal design airport
...Orlando and Tampa in Florida, U.S.—but to some degree the concept has fallen out of favour, having been found difficult to adapt to the changing size of aircraft and wasteful of apron space. Los Angeles International Airport originally had all its aircraft served at satellite buildings, but during the 1980s all satellites were converted to pier...
city, Los Angeles county, California, U.S. It lies southwest of downtown Los Angeles. Settled in 1873 by Daniel Freeman, who named the city for his hometown in Canada, it was laid out by the Centinela-Inglewood Land Company in 1887 and became a poultry-raising centre. Inglewood developed with the Los Angeles metropolitan area and is the site of the Hollywood Park horse-racing track. La Casa de la Centinela Adobe (built in 1836) is a historical landmark. The city is the seat of the University of West Los Angeles (1966) and the City University of Los Angeles (1974), a distance-learning institution (now centred largely around Internet-based instruction) with offices in several U.S. states and overseas. Los Angeles International Airport is adjacent (southwest). Inc. city, 1908. Pop. (1990) 109,602; (2000) 112,580.
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groundwater pollution control airport
...required to provide at least primary treatment of all runoff discharges, and there are legal restrictions on the nature of the chemicals that can be used. In order to prevent groundwater pollution, Munich Airport was designed to accommodate existing flows of surface water across the entire site and was also provided with extensive arrangements for the recycling of deicing chemicals.
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runway configuration airport
...distance approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization on Nov. 9, 1995. This independent parallel configuration permits simultaneous independent landings and takeoffs on both runways. Munich Airport exemplifies this type of configuration. Even greater capacity is possible using a four-runway configuration of independent close parallels, as is the case at Los Angeles International...
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terminal airport
...operation. In practice, building lengths tend to be limited to approximately 800 metres (2,650 feet). Examples of the linear design occur at Kansas City International Airport in Missouri, U.S., Munich Airport in Germany, and Charles de Gaulle Airport near...
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