Average airline passenger has to walk 1600 ft from his parked car to his airplane but design of Dulles International Airport reduces this to 350 ft and eliminates stair climbing; self propelled mobile lounges take passengers to airliners; lounges are self leveling to adjust to aircraft door sills; passenger handling in 150 by 600 ft, column-free concourse, roofed by precast concrete panels, supported on steel cables fastened to side columns.
Terminal makes flying easy on feet
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 164 , n 5
1960
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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