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Troy, did you not get to see this cultural wonder when you went to India?
[NA]India pastimes[NA]
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Heh. Looks like glider pilots in a thermal in summertime. 
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I did not! I was in Bangalore, this appears to be in Adilabad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_death_(motorcycle_act)
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Probably safer than driving on the average city street in India.
Steve
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this concept was considered for airport design early on
http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesc...rooftop-innercity-circular-airports-1919.html
even the Navy thought about this a while back
http://www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=2CkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=76&query=airports+shaped+like+wheels
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0617273
http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesc...rooftop-innercity-circular-airports-1919.html
even the Navy thought about this a while back
http://www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=2CkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=76&query=airports+shaped+like+wheels
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0617273