Giant steel platform for floating airport appears off Yokosuka

Giant steel platform for floating airport appears off Yokosuka

YOKOSUKA, Japan - A giant 1,000-meter-long steel platform to be used in the construction of an experimental floating airport appears off Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in Tokyo Bay on Aug. 4. A sheet, the last unit of six, arrived earlier in the day to be attached to the main platform.

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