Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:
On Thu, 18 May 2006 18:05:24 +0100, purple pete
wrote in
:
Couldn't miss it here in Richmond - quiet it is NOT, despite the
claims.

Stood underneath it as it came in at Heathrow - must have been
around 100 people there for it (just where I was)

It seemed to do quite a bit of rolling and pitching, from the
BBC web-clip. Was it exceptioonally windy?

Not exceptionally windy, but quite a gusty crosswind. At 13:00 it was
south-westerly 18 knots gusting to 31 knots. Later in the afternoon
when I saw other planes using the same runway, it was 22 knots gusting
to 35, and some of the approaches were quite interesting.
--
Richard J.
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