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Aircraft bridges must be designed to support the heaviest aircraft that may cross them, or that will cross them in the future. In 1963, a taxiway bridge at O'Hare International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world, was planned to handle future aircraft weighing 365,000 pounds (166,000 kg), but aircraft weights doubled within two years of its construction. [1]
Airbridge or air bridge may refer to: AirBridge (alliance) or AiRUnion, a defunct Russian-backed consortium; Airbridge (band), an early-1980s British progressive-rock band; Airbridge (logistics), the route and means of delivering material from one place to another by an airlift
United Airlines planes lined up at their jet bridges at Denver International Airport in March 2014. A jet bridge (also termed jetway, [1] jetwalk, airgate, jetty, gangway, planeplank, aerobridge/airbridge, finger, skybridge, airtube, expedited suspended passenger entry system (E-SPES), or its official industry name passenger boarding bridge (PBB)) is an enclosed connector which most commonly ...
An airbridge is the route and means of delivering material from one place to another by an airlift. [1]An airbridge is the means by which an airhead is kept supplied by flying over enemy held territory.
Skyway or skybridge, a type of pedestrian bridge; Jet bridge or skybridge, a retractable connecting bridge between an airport and an aircraft; SkyBridge (people mover), a people mover in Rome; Skybridge (TransLink), a bridge in Metro Vancouver, Canada; Skybridge, Chicago, a building in Chicago, United States; SkyBridge Capital, an American ...
James Warren (1806–1908) was a British engineer who, around 1848 to 1907 (along with Willoughby Monzoni), patented the Warren-style truss bridge and girder design. This bridge design is mainly constructed by equilateral triangles which can carry both tension and compression.
The Atlantic Bridge is a flight route from Gander International Airport in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, to Scotland, with a refueling stop in Iceland. Traditionally, the Scottish airport most associated with the Atlantic Bridge has been Prestwick International Airport , owing to its long association with US and Canadian military traffic.
The Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo Aerial Bridge (Portuguese: Ponte Aérea) is a Brazilian air shuttle run by various airlines between Santos Dumont airport in Rio de Janeiro and Congonhas airport in São Paulo. It was inaugurated on 5 July 1959 by the airlines Varig, Cruzeiro do Sul and VASP making it the first air shuttle in the world. [1]