OT: OnT? A380

elyob said the following on 18/05/2006 14:27:

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Just cycled to Heathrow and got a few snaps for the geeks among us 🙂

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/sets/72057594138379628/

Flippin' 'eck! Is the pub on the end of the runway???? Did you need to
duck as it flew over?

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Paul Boyd
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Paul Boyd said:

elyob said the following on 18/05/2006 14:27:

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Just cycled to Heathrow and got a few snaps for the geeks among us 🙂

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/sets/72057594138379628/

Flippin' 'eck! Is the pub on the end of the runway???? Did you need
to duck as it flew over?

Looks like it was going at over 70mph, too.

Well, assuming that it didn't stall, I think it's safe to assume that it
was.
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Ambrose

Paul Boyd said:

elyob said the following on 18/05/2006 14:27:

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Just cycled to Heathrow and got a few snaps for the geeks among us 🙂

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/sets/72057594138379628/

Flippin' 'eck! Is the pub on the end of the runway???? Did you need to
duck as it flew over?

Here
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&search_result=&db=pc&lang=&keepicon=true&pc=TW140PZ&advanced=&client=public&addr2=&quicksearch=TW14+0PZ&addr3=&addr1=

or http://tinyurl.com/qbst8

Quite some way from the runway.

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elyob said the following on 18/05/2006 14:27:

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Just cycled to Heathrow and got a few snaps for the geeks among us 🙂

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/sets/72057594138379628/

Flippin' 'eck! Is the pub on the end of the runway???? Did you need to
duck as it flew over?

Pretty much, yes!
http://www.local-pub.com/details.php?details=10392&name=The+Green+Man&town=bedfont&country=UK

Paul Boyd said:

elyob said the following on 18/05/2006 14:27:

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Just cycled to Heathrow and got a few snaps for the geeks among us 🙂

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/sets/72057594138379628/

Flippin' 'eck! Is the pub on the end of the runway????

Pretty much:
http://maps.google.com/?t=h&om=1&ll=51.465211,-0.426171&spn=0.009799,0.019784
- pub is at the green triangle on Faggs Rd, rhs of picture, runway 27L
is the grey thing on the left. Very popular with anorak wearers for
some reason.

elyob said:

Just cycled to Heathrow and got a few snaps for the geeks among us 🙂

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/sets/72057594138379628/

I just stood in the garden as the [censored] flew over my house.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/julesh/

Julesh

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I just stood in the garden as the [censored] flew over my house.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/julesh/

Watched from the office window in Sunbury as it approached. As it
taxied after landing you could clearly see the tail moving above the
buildings, like the dorsal fin of a shark moving through the water.
This from 4 miles away.

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Julesh said:

I just stood in the garden as the [censored] flew over my house.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/julesh/

Watched from the office window in Sunbury as it approached. As it
taxied after landing you could clearly see the tail moving above the
buildings, like the dorsal fin of a shark moving through the water.
This from 4 miles away.

Woo hoo! BBC News24 just showed my photo!

elyob said:

Just cycled to Heathrow and got a few snaps for the geeks among us 🙂

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/sets/72057594138379628/

The makers allege its fuel consumption per seat is about the same as
that of an economical car. But I suspect that means the whole car, not
each seat in it.

Good pics, though.

Colin McKenzie

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On average in Britain, you're more likely to get a head injury walking
a mile than cycling it.
So why aren't we all exhorted to wear walking helmets?

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.. Diversions very circuitous, especially if you

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don't fancy riding across a field, and unsigned.

you're not wrong there; my (quite old) knowledge of the route certainly
does not extend to suburban housing / industrial estates ;-)

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Hope this helps someone. If it does, I'll give an update when I find
out that any stretch has reopened.

thanks; on day I'll fulfill my ambition to ride all the way to Brum on
it (as my friend in Warwick is now in Detroit)