London City Airport is built in the middle of London docks.
Is the airport accessible by ships, and can aircraft taxi or be towed to ships visiting LCY? Given the short runway of LCY, it might often be wiser to remove a plane by water instead of attempting to fly it out of LCY…
By: rdc1000 - 21st July 2005 at 11:02
London City has a single short runway, with buildings around requiring steep climb, quiet engine and a great potential for ground damage in case of failure at takeoff. And I suppose they do not have huge aircraft fixing workshops, either. So, what can LCY do about an aircraft which lands there and on being inspected is thought unsafe to take off? Fix it in place? Break it up and dispose of the wreckage by land? Or sail it out to a better airport?
Do the waterways around LCY have the clearances to let an intact plane atop a barge pass through? I suppose the streets and the railways of East End do not.
You really are being ridiculous with this aren’t you? WHAT?????!!!! IF an aircraft went tech at LCY it would be fixed there…why wouldn’t it be? IF an aircraft had an accident at LCY then the considerations would be exactly the same as any airport with a restricted boundary, it just happens to be that the boundary at LCY is primarily, but not exclusively water. I think you should perhaps leave this topic because it seems a bit nonsensical.
By: chornedsnorkack - 21st July 2005 at 10:16
Small ships are able to go to LCY.
WHY? That does not seem logical at all. Why would you fly in and then sail out?
London City has a single short runway, with buildings around requiring steep climb, quiet engine and a great potential for ground damage in case of failure at takeoff. And I suppose they do not have huge aircraft fixing workshops, either. So, what can LCY do about an aircraft which lands there and on being inspected is thought unsafe to take off? Fix it in place? Break it up and dispose of the wreckage by land? Or sail it out to a better airport?
Do the waterways around LCY have the clearances to let an intact plane atop a barge pass through? I suppose the streets and the railways of East End do not.
By: mmitch - 20th July 2005 at 21:03
LCY was built in the old London docklands area. The main docks are now far down river at Tilbury. The LCY fire service have small craft to react to an emergency. I don’t think that even a small barge would be welcome in these waters. 🙂
mmitch.
By: T5 - 20th July 2005 at 18:14
Yeah, does seem somewhat pointless. An absolute waste of time when London City seems to work fine as it is.
By: Grey Area - 20th July 2005 at 17:20
I wonder whether you’re being entirely serious here, chornedsnorkack…….. 😎
By: tenthije - 20th July 2005 at 17:12
London City Airport is built in the middle of London docks.
Is the airport accessible by ships…
Small ships are able to go to LCY.
and can aircraft taxi or be towed to ships visiting LCY? Given the short runway of LCY, it might often be wiser to remove a plane by water instead of attempting to fly it out of LCY…
WHY? That does not seem logical at all. Why would you fly in and then sail out?
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