The Loony 'Circular Runway' Will Never Happen, But Maybe It Should. Maybe it is time to rethink modern aviation. ... Henk Hesselink wants to reshape commercial aviation by reshaping the runway into a huge circle. The senior R&D manager at the Netherlands Aerospace Centre calls his idea the Endless Runway.

Are circular runways possible?

An endless runway is an aircraft runway which loops around to form a shape such as a circle. There were experiments with this concept in the 1960s and it is now being researched at the Nederlands Lucht- en Ruimtevaartcentrum – the national aerospace laboratory of the Netherlands.

Why wont my circular runways work?

Banked Runway Issues

Any rolling or banking affects that, increasing the stall speed of the aircraft, making it more dangerous to fly slower. The runway in the circular concept is banked. ... The centrifugal force they advertise would lose effect as the aircraft slows, further killing traction.