Small footprint airports

[MAKG1]

Guys, you are thinking about this in the wrong way. We need a plane elevator.

You taxi into a big flat spot and it lifts you up to altitude. Then you apply full power, hold brakes, and then you roll off the end and into the sky!

The reverse is easy, just have a trapeze setup for each plane and it'll catch you out of the air and slow you into one of the spots and bring you down.

Been done.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron_(ZRS-4)

http://youtu.be/IWoEQRl8dCs

 

[Jaybird180]

I will add my 2 cents...

You can make the wheels go a gazillion miles an hour but how does that move air past the wings...?

Easy. Put a rubber band on the wheels and when you're ready, hit the launch button and the rubber band releases it's energy.

Everybody knows that.