Silver & Co
This is indeed a very interesting thread but could someone do another plan of the estuary region showing the original proposed positions of ALL the past estuary-based airport options over the last couple of decades - four options at least have been tabled. This needs to include the runway alignment, no. of runways and throw in Southend for clarity in terms of its current proximity. That might make the debate a little easier to comprehend as I can't pinpoint where Foster, Boris or any of the older proposals were supposed to be - reclaimed land or otherwise. Armed with that, a tour of the flightpaths using Google Earth would be infinately more insightful. Very soon indeed, this is going to be on the nations agenda with a myriad of clueless politicians having their say being led by hugely overpiad consultants thinkin gthis could be the world's biggest gravy train for the next decade. If the simpletons of PPRUNE land have a better clue about what's what than westminster, that is a rather frightening prospect.
Dab hand with PowerPoint anyone?