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Old March 7th 06, 09:21 PM posted to uk.transport.air,uk.transport.london
Graeme Wall Graeme Wall is offline
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Default What's this green thing at London City Airport?

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"Colin" wrote:

"peter" wrote in message
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John Rowland wrote:

http://maps.google.com/?ll=51.506086...1,0.002494&t=k


Heathrow has one too:
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=51.47...9,0.009495&t=k


As has Stansted:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...0.001786&t= k



I was to;d the reason for using the green machines was because the sight of a
real burnt out airframe was considered upsetting for nervous passengers.

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