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Right Touch
1986 BBC Airport 86 clip filmed from the flight deck of G-WLAD landing into LHR from LBA.
(Credit Simon Lowe)
https://vimeo.com/113203999
It would have been a blast had this sequence been filmed in reverse. The Radar rooms at LBA have never been generously proportioned; to begin with Radar was partitioned into a corner of the VCR then later relocated to the floor beneath with a staircase taking up valuable space. Not much room for a camera crew plus Peter McCann and Bob Brooks. Probably not a free radar display for them either! Thankfully things have changed for the better. Radar is still in the same room but has been opened up and had the ergonomics treatment. Not bad for a 57 year old control tower.