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Bourke Airport
Bourke Airport is an airport located north of Bourke, New South Wales, Australia. The airport is located at an elevation of above sea level. It has two runways: 05/23, an asphalt runway long, and 18/36, a grass runway long. Facilities As part of the unemployment relief grant from the Civil Aviation Department made money available to build a second runway at the Bourke Aerodrome. The airport was opened for access in 1943 as a base for World War II. A radio location service was intended to be installed at the airport by August 1946. Inquiries were also being made about lighting. Butler's Douglas DC-3 was now making regular flights into Bourke by April 1946. May 1949 saw a tender awarded to Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) to install a radar-style distance measuring beacon, with 'DME', an omni-radio range installation. Butler Air Transport Limited sought to have the airfield upgraded to support a possible change from the Douglas DC-3 to the Vickers Viscount, other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asphalt Concrete
Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac, bitumen macadam, or rolled asphalt in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. Asphalt mixtures have been used in pavement construction since the beginning of the twentieth century. It consists of mineral aggregate bound together with asphalt, laid in layers, and compacted. The process was refined and enhanced by Belgian-American inventor Edward De Smedt. The terms ''asphalt'' (or ''asphaltic'') ''concrete'', ''bituminous asphalt concrete'', and ''bituminous mixture'' are typically used only in engineering and construction documents, which define concrete as any composite material composed of mineral aggregate adhered with a binder. The abbreviation, ''AC'', is sometimes used for ''asphalt concrete'' but can also denote ''asphalt content'' or ''asphalt cement'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
