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Old 24th Jan 2013, 10:51
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Heathrow Harry
 
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the real problem is that at Vuaxhall the river is only 500 ft wide

All well & good if you are flying in a straight line in decent visibilty but a very different matter if you are manouvering in poor visibility

any normal turn was likely to take him over the river bank and, as we know, there are a lot of tall builings there

maybe if he'd slowed almost to a hover he could have made a turn in that space but at normal speeds.............

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