Greenwich From The Air...
You may remember my mentioning my friend Ian who's a helicopter pilot - he was able to clear up the mystery of why there are always so many helicopters over Greenwich.
Although some of them are police guys tracking felons from the dodgier areas of town, and others are transport monitors checking out the state of the Blackwall Tunnel (and of course the really noisy Chinooks are MOD and can do what they damn please...) most of them are just circling round in a holding pattern, waiting for permission to enter central London airspace.
He promised me some photographs next time he was over Greenwich (and with a passenger - let's face it, I would have worried if he'd taken snaps himself)and he's come through with some doozies.
There are more, but for some reason (as with yesterday's pics of Nelson's funeral barge) they are refusing to load. I suspect it's a Blogger problem. Ho hum...
Labels: Art, Places of Interest
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
09:06
7 Comments:
What about the proposed changes to flight paths over London? I had a quick look on the website and it seemed there were no flight paths to/from Heathrow over Greenwich. I assume that this is too good to be true.
I don't think he knows anything about commercial airlines, I'm afraid...
I used to live near Mildenhall Airbase......now, if you want air noise......LOL
Great pictures - hope you can post a few more...
Fine pictures. Who would guess that one of Greenwich's finest structures lurks beneath the second photograph of the Dome and the river.
You're not wrong TB - even if it's not always in the best of health.
You had a busy day yesterday, didn't you...
Super pictures. I can add that for the most part the routine Chinook flights specifically follow the path of the river. I work occasionally on the fifth floor of a building at Crossharbour which has views East and West so you can see the monster choppers come up from the barrier then banking by the dome etc.
I reckon its part of a regular service flight which goes between somewhere like Salisbury and Northolt. Indeed, I'm inclined to observe that it is a very predictable journey - too predictable considering security etc.
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