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===Floating airport===

A ''Mega-Float'' [[floating airport]] prototype was constructed in Tokyo Bay from 1998 to 1999.<ref>[http://www.build.new-atlantis.org/vlfs.htm Very large floating structure — Mega-Float, completed 1999]. New Atlantis 2002, retrieved 1 October 2011</ref> It was one kilometer in length, and was primarily intended as a test vehicle, to research the loadings and responses of such installations.<ref>Areas being studied in Mega-Float include the hydroelastic behavior of the unit, the mooring system response and durability, the connector system and its welded joints, the anti-corrosion system, the unit's effect on the surrounding seawavessea waves which impact the nearby shoreline, and the unit's effect on the bay's prevailing currents, water quality, and marine ecosystems.</ref> This project was substituted as a study project to provide more definite information about a proposed floating runway at [[Kansai International Airport]], which was not built (an artificial island was instead constructed to support the runway).

BY STEVE CHAPPLE, SPECIAL TO THE San Diego Union-Tribune

SEPT. 21, 2013 12 PM PT

What happens when San Diego outgrows its new $1 billion expansion of Lindbergh Field?

The ocean is wide open, and it’s right here. Why not build the world’s first major floating airport?

This is the practical and visionary idea being “floated” by Dr. Walter Munk, who holds the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Chair at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Munk is widely considered the dean of world ocean scientists

Researching several VLFS research papers, new concrete mixes incorporating polymers and fibers for greater strength, and the new technology of 3D building printing, as well as Dr. Munk's proposal; a San Diegan Author wrote the novel San Diego Floating Airport, published on Amazon.com in the hopes of stimulating further interest in the concept, as a solution to both land scarcity in large coastal urban areas and sea level rise due to global warming.

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