Finncapt, I wasn't commenting on the issues around getting R3 built at Heathrow, more that the airport, and Finnish government, felt it worthwhile to design and build, and likewise all that remote stand capacity, when it had been commented that spare capacity was too expensive to provide.
** - Good to hear from you again, I think you may have been making PA's back to me in the cabin when I was a regular on the BA (New Zealand) DC-10s on LHR-LAX.