Thursday, January 15, 2009

US Airways do Boris' airport feasibility study for him

Aviation expert David Learmount, on GMTV, pointed out the obvious. The New York plane crash was, probably, caused by a flock of Canada Geese going into the engines of the plane. Birds like estuaries. So the idea of putting an airport on an estuary is "in aviation terms, bonkers", says Learmont. You'd get planes going down like flies as the birds whizz into the engines. After all, the birds have been there in the estuary for millions of years. Why should they be scared off by man's silly temporary flying cigar tubes?

I notice that Chris Grayling, on Question Time, last night distanced the Tory party, again, from Boris' idea of an airport on the Thames Estuary. The party policy is a high speed rail link as an alternative to the Heathrow third runway, he insisted.

The Conservative party really have got a bit of a problem, haven't they? Their one example of wielding big power, Boris, is completely at odds with his party on a major plank of policy.

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