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Show the rest of the video from last week if there wasn’t time for you to complete it. (36:35) The Biggest Airport in the World Ever Built
What is Infrastructure?
- A system or systems built to move and deliver things over a large area
What does infrastructure move and deliver?
- Water
- Electricity
- Communication and navigational signals (telephone, radio, TV, GPS…)
- People
- Fuel
- Waste
- Education
- Cargo
- Emergency Services
What does infrastructure consist of?
- Pipes
- Wires
- Towers
- Vehicles
- Roads
- Sidewalks
- Stations (of all types)
- Tracks
- Runways
Look Around: What is Infrastructure?
Exercise: Location by stations and bearings
Show an aviation chart with airways and VORs
Discuss Air Traffic Control: How a Control Tower Works (1:13)
Civil Engineers are engineers who design and improve elements of infrastructure.
Additional Resources:
What’s That Infrastructure? Episode 2
Runways to Riches: The Importance of Aviation Infrastructure to the Global Economy
Aviation Infrastructure for the 21st Century NASA Aeronautics Design
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