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Recliner[_2_] · January 30th 12, 01:17 PM posted to uk.transport.london

"Robert Neville" wrote in message

d wrote:

As a slight aside, there's a public road that runs past the end of
the
runway at Gatwick. But woe betide anyone who stops there to watch
the planes - as we found out the police turn up in minutes and move
you on with no messing about. Seems a bit OTT since any terrorist
who has a rocket launcher (which I guess is what they're worried
about) would do it from the nearby woods anyway but I guess paranoia
is the order of the day now.

The preferred location for lobbing things at the airfield used to be
the hotel carparks north of Heathrow, but they allowed industrial
development on that side of the field which kind of blocks the view.

I thought the only time a mortar bomb actually landed inside Heathrow,
it was close to T4, on the south side of the airfield. I left from the
adjacent gate the very next day.