"Graeme Wall" wrote in message

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"Richard J." wrote:

What makes you think it's moving?

I was going to ask that, there are two stationary ones south of
terminal 4.

Ah, found it, there's one just off runway 23 at the north end. Seems
an odd place to be, given it is not on the runway itself but on the
'hard shoulder'. 27R appears to be the landing runway, given there's
an aircraft taking off from 27L. On the other hand there appears to
be a queue of 5 aircraft in two lines heading for 27R

The Concorde (G-BOAB) alongside Runway 23 is permanently parked there,
and I always look out for it when taking off from 27R. It's one of the
older Concordes and was already grounded (ie, effectively retired) when
Concorde was retired, which is why it stayed at Heathrow. I'm not sure
if they still plan to move it to somewhere in or by Terminal 5 when it's
finished.

See
http://www.extrospection.com/archive...parked_at.html

As for planes taking off and landing on the runways, remember that
Google uses composite images which could easily show both 27R and 27L as
takeoff runways, if one was taken in the morning and the other in the
afternoon, even on the same day. Indeed, it would be perfectly possible
for the same aircraft to be shown several times at Heathrow.

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"Nigel Pendse" wrote:

"Graeme Wall" wrote in message

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"Richard J." wrote:

What makes you think it's moving?

I was going to ask that, there are two stationary ones south of
terminal 4.

Ah, found it, there's one just off runway 23 at the north end. Seems
an odd place to be, given it is not on the runway itself but on the
'hard shoulder'. 27R appears to be the landing runway, given there's
an aircraft taking off from 27L. On the other hand there appears to
be a queue of 5 aircraft in two lines heading for 27R

The Concorde (G-BOAB) alongside Runway 23 is permanently parked there,
and I always look out for it when taking off from 27R. It's one of the
older Concordes and was already grounded (ie, effectively retired) when
Concorde was retired, which is why it stayed at Heathrow. I'm not sure
if they still plan to move it to somewhere in or by Terminal 5 when it's
finished.

Can't say I've ever noticed it but the last few times I've flown out of
Heathrow have been at night. Strange they've parked it close to an active
runway, even if it doesn't get used very often.


See
http://www.extrospection.com/archive...parked_at.html

As for planes taking off and landing on the runways, remember that
Google uses composite images which could easily show both 27R and 27L as
takeoff runways, if one was taken in the morning and the other in the
afternoon, even on the same day. Indeed, it would be perfectly possible
for the same aircraft to be shown several times at Heathrow.



True

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"Graeme Wall" wrote in message


Can't say I've ever noticed it but the last few times I've flown out
of Heathrow have been at night. Strange they've parked it close to
an active runway, even if it doesn't get used very often.

23 is no longer an active runway, or they couldn't have parked G-BOAB on
the 'hard shoulder'.

It's been a few years since that runway was last used -- I live near the
flight path for it, and I can't remember when I last heard a plane on
that route (it was always when there were strong cross winds). I last
landed on it about four years ago, and as I recall, it was a very
"lively" ride down.

I don't think that runway is likely ever to be returned to use, as the
proposed extended Heathrow East terminal will be built right over it,
just as T3 covers one of the other original runways (in its early days,
Heathrow had the standard RAF six runway pattern).

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"Nigel Pendse" wrote:

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I don't think that runway is likely ever to be returned to use, as the
proposed extended Heathrow East terminal will be built right over it,
just as T3 covers one of the other original runways (in its early days,
Heathrow had the standard RAF six runway pattern).




I remember that, used to live at Bedfont very many years ago.

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