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Re: Heathrow's Third Runway Thrown into doubt.

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:05 am
by Jim B
Diocletian wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:52 pm
Paul & Lesley wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 9:00 am It's no good building an airport in the Thames Estuary It's a flood plain area look at this.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map ... _233154090
Plus are there not famously unexploded ordinance ships that lay in the estuary? Would give a new meaning to a rough landing.
I think you're talking about the SS Richard Montgomery. Two schools of thought on whether it's still dangerous or not.

Jim

Re: Heathrow's Third Runway Thrown into doubt.

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:05 pm
by Paul
You could read this about the SS Richard Montgomery.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2015 ... the-thames

Re: Heathrow's Third Runway Thrown into doubt.

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:27 pm
by Diocletian
Interesting reading indeed.