World Central Al Maktoum airport

[cowpatz]

Hey Lawrie or Rob could you model this please????

Dubai World Central's recently opened Al Maktoum airport has been given clearance for a Dhs120 billion ($32 billion) expansion which will initially include two satellite buildings able to handle 100 Airbus A380s.
Emirates Group chief Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum adds that the airport will have five parallel runways, each 4,500m long and 800m apart, allowing four simultaneous landings.
It will feature two main terminals and four 2,800m concourses and 400 apron positions. The airport will be built in two phases, the first to be completed in six to eight years. This will provide capacity for 130 million passengers, with the figure for the final development eventually reaching 220 million passengers.

This pic is a scale model of it!

[Ian Warren]

Not a prob .. easy done next decade .. or maybe the next ....

[omitchell]

Ok so whos gonna model it first?

[Splitpin]

Unreal .... can you picture the tower guys and then when they land ! just amazing .
Cheers CP .

[omitchell]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Sep 29 2014,8:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Unreal .... can you picture the tower guys and then when they land ! just amazing .
Cheers CP .

I'd imagine they would look like this

[deeknow]

QUOTE (omitchell @ Sep 29 2014,9:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'd imagine they would look like this

LOL

Actually, I'm not sure you'd need a tower, there are so many runways you could just pick the one you like the look of as you approach finals.

[omitchell]

QUOTE (deeknow @ Sep 30 2014,12:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

LOL

Actually, I'm not sure you'd need a tower, there are so many runways you could just pick the one you like the look of as you approach finals.

Do you really want a pilot on final approach playing eny meany miny mo???

[zk2704]

Just one question here, is this complementing or replacing the other airport, Dubai Int'l Airport (DXB)?

[deeknow]

QUOTE (omitchell @ Sep 30 2014,1:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Do you really want a pilot on final approach playing eny meany miny mo???

Errr... joking... sorry Owen

[emfrat]

I remember staging through Dubai in 1987, on an MSA flight to London. At that time it looked about the size of YBBN today. We walked in from the apron, between two lines of army guys with some serious looking weaponry, and one young fellow who turned around to photograph the plane was quickly encouraged to forget the photo and look where he was going (not that I understand Arabic; but the meaning was perfectly clear)....we entered the terminal by a longish passageway with a brilliant mural the whole length of it depicting the local culture. It was a real work of art. Don't know if it still exists anywhere in the umpsly HUGE Dubai Int'l that I passed through 10 years later, or the even huger one some 7 years after that. That time I discovered there was an Irish Pub in the transit area, in among all the magnificent Middle-Eastern decor - the most incongruous thing I have ever seen at any airport. I like a pint of Guinness', but tummy time was something like 0300z, so I didn't indulge.

[Ian Warren]

Hey Mike .. leaving Brissy on one trip .. I said to a guy sitting beside me .... Cripes they going to drive us home ! ..... the amount of time on the tarmac!

[emfrat]

Yes indeed - esp if you are taking off to the south, from International; even from Domestic it's a long way.

[Ian Warren]

On the day I'm sure I could have wound the window down and start nodding my head to some rock music yelling out to the chicky babe's ... sounds like a good theme for a movie never done before

[Charl]

QUOTE (emfrat @ Sep 30 2014,11:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes indeed - esp if you are taking off to the south, from International; even from Domestic it's a long way.

I've just come through there, we landed rwy 12. The taxi took so long I became disorientated, and I have no idea where they put us.
It was on a distant ramp, and the bus ride took quarter of an hour.
The traffic has certainly outgrown the logistics at OMDB (although not the terminal itself, which swallows an A380 load and still appears deserted).

The scale of things in Dubai is breathtaking, even the temperature: 43 deg C on the day, like inhaling a blowtorch.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Charl @ Oct 6 2014,3:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The scale of things in Dubai is breathtaking, even the temperature: 43 deg C on the day, like inhaling a blowtorch.

Was mention of extreme temps just recent, your comment "like inhaling a blowtorch" is exactly how they put Death Valley, maximum time in the open was twenty minutes, the also recent posting Pima Aircraft Museum and times out in the open , stepping into an oven.