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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]
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 ...
Airbridge (ultralight aircraft manufacturer), a Russian manufacturer of ultralights; Jet bridge or airbridge, a passenger boarding bridge used at large airports; An electronic component used to allow two traces to cross in, for instance, planar transmission line circuits; Air Bridge, 1951 thriller novel by Hammond Innes
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.
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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.
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 ...
The station was opened on 1 November 1942 as RAF Hartford Bridge and it was used throughout the remainder of Second World War for reconnaissance, defence and strike operations using Supermarine Spitfires, Douglas Bostons and de Havilland Mosquitoes. It was also the home of the Free French Squadron (Lorraine).