Great idea, and lets just keep it to the actual construction itself rather than the long tortuous political road to its construction. 😎

Cloud 9, a mate of mine also used to park at a similar car park at Heathrow in the 80’s. One day 20 or so cars including his had their paintwork damaged by the leak of a caustic subtsance that came from an aircraft on approach. From what I recall his insurance paid out but the insurance company did try to get recompense from the BAA, but I don’t know how it ended.

These things do happen. I lost my windscreen on my last car due to an aircraft approaching Heathrow. They go directly over our works car park every couple of minutes. Although I didn’t see it happen, a chap from work was standing about 10 yards from the car when he heard the crash. He wandered over and saw lumps of ice everywhere and a 3 inch scab in my windscreen :confused: He couldn’t see the aircraft due to low cloud but he could hear it disappearing off into the distance. There wasn’t any other damage thankfully, so I didn’t make a fuss and just claimed it on the insurance.

There was a report on the radio this morning that the first steel for the hull is to be formally cut in a ceremony this week attended by one of the royals.

As work will finally have kicked off with the hulls, do we need a new long term thread called something like ‘Building the CVF’ ?

It looks quite good 😎

Agreed aircraft fuel systems are designed for pressure and not vacuum. It is for this reason that a fuelling operative has to be very careful when doing a full defuel (say prior to maintenance) as serious damage along the lines of what djcross suggests can occur if procedure is not followed.

I can’t think of a single vehicle of any kind that sucks its own fuel supply.

I can back up what they say about Continental. Two of the best steaks I have had anywhere have been in their business section (Yum,Yum:D) Their wines are not bad either.