Lord Foster reveals further details about his airport.
Lord Foster reveals further details about his Thames Estuary airport plan
a. The wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, a Second World War ship packed with explosives, poses no danger.
(Spin and mirrors, obviously he knew nothing about the ship and its dangers).
b. A new study indicates that the risk of bird strikes on aircraft is not unique to the Thames Estuary and that this risk could be successfully managed.
(His researcher has been to Pprune, and seen my postings).
In addition, the airport layout has changed. Suddenly we have:
Taxiways in between the runways.
No terminal buildings at the end of the runways.
Some runways longer and some shorter.
Someone has obviously been tuning into Pprune. Eventually, we may even get the runways orientated into the prevailing wind and thus nicely offsetting the easterly approach so it is not over central London. And we may even get runways at least 1500m apart for simultaneous approaches too - you never know.
And how about the two commuter runways, Fosty? There is not much point just replicating LHR to the east of London. Would just 4 runways really give us the extra capacity that this new airport would need to justify its existence?
More details from the Foster website.
Foster + Partners
But this is how it should be done....
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