I'm scared to think like that knowing how these things tend to always get rejected,over the years so many promises have never materialised.
I'm scared to think like that knowing how these things tend to always get rejected,over the years so many promises have never materialised.
545 Feet tall will be the Brunswick one then Kev.
Not bad, the average height I guess.
The BT Tower in London is 600 odd feet.
I'd like a thousand odd feet one though like in America and in places like China though one day.
Will have to go to Shanghai before it sinks!
Eifel Tower is 990 feet which I went up in 2003.
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Of course it is and I suspect they know it but there is no one to take them to task, only the developer. I wouldn't mind starting a ginger group to take these people to task whenever they spout this type of ****e.Originally Posted by Kev
Height is limited due to airport aircraft access,Originally Posted by Kev
In fog they may. A plane smacked into the side of the Empire State in NY. The chances of just hitting that building with all that space around is what? But it did.Originally Posted by Kev
They work out angles from the runway, height, etc.
That was decades ago John. It wasn't a jet plane, probably didn't have radar at the time, and the part of the ESB it wholloped was twice the height of Brunswick Quay. It'll have lights on the top as a precaution for single manned aircraft and microlights, but that should suffice I reckon.
Who was the greatest of them all?
Little, Curly, Alan Ball.
R.I.P. Bally.
Not very likely though, is it? And, hey ho, sometimes accidents just happen. After all, when the Air France concorde tragically crashed at Paris Airport, it crashed into a low rise hotel and killed people in that building, as well as the passengers. Planes that are crashing don't discriminate about the type of building they crash on, although pilots still in control seem to try to steer away from things like schools and into fields, or so you read. Of course, at Schiphol that didn't happen, but it's so densely built up, that is maybe harder to do, and they were crashing at night. The whole area smelt of perfume and death, as the plane was carrying tons of French perfume amongst its freight apparantly.Originally Posted by Waterways
I have only ever panicked once a plane, with a conviction that we had just about run out of fuel with about ten miles to go - and that was going to LJLA when it was still called Speke Airport. I was comforted by the thought that if the pilot felt unable to continue the last bit, he could probably put down reasonably safely by slowing down and sliding into the mudflats of the inner estuary. Now probably it would have been be a disaster, the plane would break up and we would all have drowned (all ten of us - it was the old British Midland service from Heathrow, which was hardly a success), in two feet of mud, which would no doubt catch fire and become a sort of burning ungent. But, generally, I think there are lots of places around Speke where a plane in trouble can get down safely. And, as Bunny points out, the building will have lights on it.
Surely a plane wouldn't be that low yet when by Brunswick quay?
Gididi Gididi Goo.
Stranger things have happened Max. Planes have over/undershot the runway numerous times. You'd be surprised how many aircraft are covered by the shifting river silts..
Who was the greatest of them all?
Little, Curly, Alan Ball.
R.I.P. Bally.
But likely.Originally Posted by Liverpolitan
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I worked in aviation. I concluded nothing but flat land, or water, should be at the beginning or ends of runways – not even elevated runways lights. Never a hotel; not even to the side. Why? Because a plane might drop on it. Like it is not good to have a play area for 3 year olds on the pavement of a duel carriageway.And, hey ho, sometimes accidents just happen. After all, when the Air France concorde tragically crashed at Paris Airport, it crashed into a low rise hotel and killed people in that building, as well as the passengers. Planes that are crashing don't discriminate about the type of building they crash on,
Which are not any use in fog.And, as Bunny points out, the building will have lights on it.
Maybe they have fog lights on them too.Originally Posted by Waterways
Gididi Gididi Goo.
Fog lights that shine through the fog? Never seen any.Originally Posted by Max
What field of aviation were you involved in? An interest of mine
Intrument Landing systems (ILS). The equipment on the ground that guides and lands the planes. A long time ago now.Originally Posted by bazzacat
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