In message
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16:08:00 on Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Paul Cummins
remarked:
It would have been far better to have accepted this in the 1960's and 70's and
reclaimed enough land in the Thames estuary to build a new London International
Airport, as indeed we did in Hong Kong to replace Kai Tak.

That sounds curiously like the plan to build Maplin Airport (whose only
tangible legacy seems to be an electronics company that latched on to
the name in case it became world famous). After much debate they moved
the concept to Stansted, which is in effect Heathrow's third runway and
doing quite nicely thank you.
--
Roland Perry