abstract:A floating airport is an airport built and situated on a very large floating structure (VLFS) located many miles out at sea utilizing a flotation type of device or devices such as Pneumatic Stabilized Platform (PSP) technology.
The US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is nothing short of a floatingairport, capable of launching four war planes every minute from its 4.5 acre flight deck.
To ease congestion at London's Heathrow Airport, the architecture firm Gensler recently unveiled plans for a floatingairport that would be built right in the middle of the River Thames.
There have also been three different plans to build airports in the Thames estuary - a floatingairport designed by architects Gensier, another plan known as Boris Island after it was backed by London mayor Boris Johnson, and proposals for a hub airport on the Isle of Grain designed by architect Norman Foster.