MULTILEVEL AIRPORT STRUCTURE

• US 3,556,441 A
• Filed: 10/03/1968
• Issued: 01/19/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Julius J. Oberlander
• Original Assignee: Julius J. Oberlander
• Inventors: Oberlander, Julius J.
• Application Number:
  US04/764,880
• Time in Patent Office: 838 Days
• US Class Current: 244/114.00R
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 1/00 Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations specially adapted for captive aircraft B64F3/00

Abstract

This invention concerns a multilevel airport building structure providing aircraft landing and takeoff and passenger and cargo movement facilities within a single building. The structure includes a landing strip on the roof where incoming planes come in for a landing, an aircraft and passenger service area on the intermediate level where the aircraft is fueled, checked, and passengers board and depart, a takeoff strip on a lower level where the aircraft taxies and takes off, and an aircraft elevator for moving the aircraft vertically between the different levels.

Claims

1. An aircraft handling facility providing aircraft landing and takeoff runway strip means including a multilevel aircraft building structure having separate aircraft landing and takeoff runway strips and passenger and cargo movement facilities as a single building comprising:

a plurality of stacked horizontal levels including a first level of said structure defining an unobstructed substantially flat stationary landing strip as the roof of said structure;

a second level directly underlying the first level defining an aircraft service floor and having aircraft transport means for moving an aircraft on the second level, aircraft service facilities and means for loading cargo on an aircraft;

a third level directly underlying the second level defining an unobstructed substantially flat stationary takeoff runway strip and being open to the outside at one end of the structure for exit of aircraft therefrom; and

aircraft elevator means for moving an aircraft upward and downward between all three of said levels.

2. The structure of claim 1 including as an additional portion of the strip means an unobstructed substantially flat stationary extension strip integral with said third level, said extension strip extending at least about 150 feet beyond said building structure.

3. The structure of claim 2 including a plurality of individual spaced apart wind deflectors along a portion of the strip means.

4. The structure of claim 3 wherein said deflectors are along both sides of the extension strip.

5. The aircraft structure in claim 1 including an airport terminal having one of its sides adjacent to said aircraft structure, said airport terminal having a plurality of horizontal levels with passenger movement means associated with said aircraft structure and the different levels of said airport terminal for moving passengers between said aircraft structure and said airport terminal.

6. The structure in claim 5 including a public and private transportation level below said structure with facilities to accommodate public and private transportation.

7. The structure defined in claim 5 including a second multilevel aircraft structure adjacent to another side of said airport terminal, said second aircraft structure having passenger movement means associated with said airport terminal for moving passengers between said second aircraft structure and said airport terminal.

8. The structure of claim 1 wherein said takeoff level includes antipollution devices.

9. The structure of claim 8 wherein said antipollution devices include reversible fans triggered by photoelectric means.

10. The structure in claim 1 wherein said structure defines an elongated building structure.

11. The structure of claim 1 wherein said aircraft transport means includes conveyor means.

12. The structure of claim 1 wherein said aircraft elevator means includes elevator openings and an aircraft elevator mounted in said elevator said aircraft elevator including a vertically movable elevator platform and means for moving said platform.

13. A method of handling aircraft in a multilevel elongated aircraft structure having a plurality of stacked horizontal levels comprising:

landing the aircraft on a first level of said structure in a first direction;

transferring the landed aircraft downwardly to a lower second level of said structure;

transporting the aircraft in a backward manner in a second direction opposite of that of the first direction on the second level of said structure to servicing and loading stations;

servicing and loading the aircraft at the servicing and loading stations;

transferring the serviced and loaded aircraft downwardly to a still lower third level of said structure; and

propelling said aircraft on the third level of said structure in the first direction at an increasing rate of speed until the aircraft becomes airbOrne.