When an application was submitted in the late '90s to re-open RAF Bentwaters, as a licensed airfield for light aircraft training, heavy maintenance, cargo, a few t/prop scheduled flights to NE Europe (perhaps) and 2 - 5 arrivals and departures a week by jet passenger aircraft operating holiday flights, the local rag concocted an image of a street in Ipswich with a B747 in full landing configuration with the wheels 50 feet above the roofs. Much like some of the pics above here.
The street shown was 10.8 nm from the landing threshold, in easterly winds only, of course. At Heathrow, this would be SW of Maidenhead. (Thinks.....3 degrees...6076 ft/nm...1:60 rule....height above threshold 1,094 ft ft.)
Never underestimate the power of the Press to invent an outrage and then manufacture the images to illustrate it. It sells more papers, doesn't it?