26/01/2004 … a tad foggy

photo 1: Gate D3. For those not familiar to AMS, this is the closest spot to the observation platform. The plane at D5 could only barely be seen, and D7 was invisible.

photo 2: You should be able to see two ATC towers. You can, barely, see one of them.

They are already being ridiculed in this thread:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=60047

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Primarily for the business market, with passengers tranfered onto coaches

Oooh in that case I believe this will go on….

no wait… I do not!

Come on, do you honestly expect biz travellevers to give up on LCY? Or on the LHR+LHR-Express combo so they can sit on a coach? But of course the coach will be very fast, going over the M2-A2 driving past LCY and straight into the congestion zone! Reminds me of the gorgeous busshuttle used by Ryanair to get people from Eindhoven to Amsterdam.

p.s. Welcome on these boards!

I would guess that a documentary built around the Concorde move mentioned here by Ren Frew would attract a great deal of interest, and not just in the UK. I’m ready to place my order for a DVD copy of the programme now!

Tell me when it will be broadcast and I will make you a copy. This offer comes with complementary Dutch subtitles! :diablo:

Hello all forum goers,

I am currently working on a TV series called Mega Moves for Five and National Geographic International. As the name suggests it focuses on moving large or unusual objects. In the first season these included houses, locomotives and even a new air traffic control tower at Heathrow Airport. We have a webpage that details these programs at http://www.windfallfilms.com/html/productions/monstermoves.htm

Now, we have been challenged to make a bigger and bolder second series, and I am making the show that follows the moving of large machines. Not surprisingly, it struck me that moving aeroplanes, especially historic ones, would be an ideal subject for this program.

As a result I was wondering if any of you were involved in, or had heard of, any aeroplanes or other large machines that are being moved in the future in the UK or anywhere else in the rest of the world.

We’re looking for interesting and challenging moves – which require some nifty engineering. So the trickier the better… and just to let you know, our filming schedule is between now and the end of September!

Please do get in touch if you have heard of anything – reply to this post, send an email or phone!

Hope to hear from you soon,

Alice Jones
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Researcher, Mega Moves
Windfall Films

[email]megamoves@windfallfilms.com[/email] / 020 7251 7652

Windfall Films, the company I am working for, is a multi-award winning independent documentary produciton company based in London. It specialises in science, technology adn history documentaries for the like of National Geographic, BBC, Channel 4, Five, The History Channel and the Discovery networks. Details of our recent productions can be found on our website: http://www.windfallfilms.com

You mind using stock footage? A while back the Aviodrome (NL) moved a KLM 747 by barge from Schiphol airport to Lelystad. Some pretty cool footage of a 747 floating through Amsterdam canals. Obviously this is already complete though.

As for current projects. Part of the BA collection is going to be moved. The other part, unfortunately, scrapped.

Going to Brussels with a positive weather forecast only to find it completely fogged up. Went in town to do some sightseeing instead for 10 minutes…. but when even the middle row of balls on the Atomium is not visible you know the fog is too bad.

More fog on a one-day trip from Niederrhein (Ryanair: Dusseldorf-West) to Hamburg. Plane left 5 hours late due to fog. On the way back another 3 hours delay thereby missing the last bus home so I had to find a last minute hotel. Once I finally arrived back at the local trainstation (next day) I got a fine because my train ticket had expired, and found my bike to be stolen. Some days you should just not get out.

Can’t believe how many rare planes I missed because they took of from another runway. Having 6 runways at the local airport tends to screw things up badly. To give you and idea:

However, the things I most regret not having done:

Anyone up for farnborough the 23rd and/or heathrow the 24th?

Just try to get a temporary job outside aviation if you must. Anything to get some experience. Admittedly, I am not exactly certain what airport operations entails, so this advice may be entirely moot. But if it is the same thing as operations at the transport company I work for, then it might be worthwhile to start applying for regualr transport companies. Taxi companies, production planners etc.

Give it half a year so that you at least got some experience on your CV. Then retry the aviation sector. It is a pretty hard industry to get in as many companies have been scaling back the last few years.

Also, don’t be ashamed for starting at a position well below your education. Currently I am a logistics assistant even though I am a BA in international logistics. To all extents and purposes my education prepared me for a job 2 or 3 levels about my current level. But you got to start somewhere! And truth be told, despite the education I would be unable to perform effectively 3 steps above where I am now (2 steps though ;)).