Flight of the Future Exhibition Now Open
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OVER 120,000 readers fortnightly in Cranford, Harlington, Sipson, OUR Harmondsworth, Longford, Colnbrook, Langley, Stanwell Moor, Stanwell, NEXT East Bedfont, West Bedfont, Hatton Cross, Ashford, Staines and on Heathrow Airport. ISSUE ESTABLISHED 34 YEARS ~ FIRST PUBLISHED APRIL 1983 IS ON August Email: [email protected] Recipient of British Airways BRING 24 SATURDAY 10th August 2019 ISSUE NO. 955 or: [email protected] Community Champion Award BACK THE ONLY NEWSPAPER THAT CIRCULATES ON HEATHROW IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY.. FLIGHT OF THE FUTURE AUG 10 1675: The foundation stone of the Royal Ob- servatory in Green- wich was laid by King Charles II. EXHIBITION NOW OPEN 1885: The first Prom- ritish Airways’ BA 2119: Flight of the Future enade Concert organised by Sir exhibition in collaboration with the Royal Henry Wood was B College of Art is now open at the Saatchi held at Queens Hall Gallery in London. in London. The exhibition, which is free to enter and runs until August 26, is 1889: The screw bottle part of the airline’s centenary celebrations and explores the next 100 top was patented at years of flying. the Hope Glass The exhibition also includes a one-of-a kind, full motion, virtual Works in Barnsley, reality experience, Fly. Built by award winning VR creators and an Yorkshire. Oscar-winning practical effects team, Fly enables visitors to become 1949: John George Haigh, 39, the infa- a time-travelling pilot, from the earliest imaginings of Leonard da mous ‘acid bath’ mur- Vinci and his ornithopter, to the Wright Brothers’ success on Kitty derer, was executed Hawk, to that first inaugural passenger flight to Paris. Users will in Wandsworth experience Concorde, the brand new A350 and the imagined flight of Prison, London. future. Haigh had confessed Tickets for Fly need to be purchased in advance here www.ba.com/ to nine murders after ba2119. police found traces of More information on the research that led to the exhibition can be a victim at his factory found http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/ in Crawley, Sussex. 1961: Britain applies to 2019-319/11379?ref=Home join the EEC. 1966: The first Ameri- can moon satellite, Or- biter I, was launched. 1969: American film Heathrow lands actress Sharon Tate Pound plunges below was fund brutally murdered at her Hol- strong performance lywood home. The bodies of four other vest in Heathrow – £1.4 Euro at Heathrow Heathrow lands strong calling on the UN’s avia- people were also passenger growth – De- tion body ICAO to set billion raised so far this found in the house PASSENGERS suf- 1st for each Pound plus side.’ mand to fly from the targets for the use of year as we build a war which she shared with ceived less than one chest to deliver the £14 exchanged. The response of UK’s hub hit a record biofuels in aviation, as her husband, director fered disbelief and Euro (just 92 cents) at recommended by the billion privately funded This is the world’s Boris Johnson is to high of 38.8 million pas- Roman Polanski. shock as they re- Heathrow on August Energy Transition Com- north west runway money markets analy- spend another £4 billion sengers (+1.8%) in H1 1984: Mary Decker, the mission. We also call on Expansion draft pre- sis of the ‘Boris Blun- of tax payers’ money on 2019, underpinned by golden girl of Ameri- the government to invest ferred masterplan un- der’ of blind Brexit. It is pro-leave propaganda, higher passenger satis- can athletics, crashed some of the nearly £4 veiled – Heathrow un- damning. on top of the £2 billion faction and increased out of the 3000 metres billion annual revenue veiled its draft preferred More buses from The Bank of England already wasted. investment Olympics final in Los raised from Air Passen- masterplan for expan- revised downwards for The public’s re- Investing for the fu- Angeles. She tripped ger Duty to scale-up pro- sion – demonstrating Stanwell Moor five years. The UK sponse was the immedi- ture – Heathrow has in- over the leg of bare- duction of sustainable how the airport will grow economy, the Pound ate Welsh by-election vested over £412 mil- foot runner Zola fuels to over 140 million pas- to Heathrow becoming worth less victory for ‘Remain ’ but lion to improve passen- Budd, the South Afri- Healthy financial sengers by 2050, create and less. will we be heeded? Is ger experience, effi- can recently given performance – A 4.0% tens of thousands of new from 10 August, ‘The cost of imports the overturning of an ciency and resilience, UK citizenship so she increase in Heathrow’s skilled jobs and open up will soar, inward invest- 8000 Tory ‘safe seat’ including trials of secu- could represent Brit- revenues to £1,461 mil- to 40 new long-haul trad- and travel is free ment will dwindle and majority not persuasion rity scanners which al- ain in the Games. lion and increased ing links for Britain’s existing enterprises in enough? low passengers to leave EBITDA by 1.5% to exporters. The airport BIRTHDAYS the UK will relocate laptops and liquids in www.carlonelimited.co.uk/442 £900 million. 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He has invoked a rarely used ‘notification DOUBLE GLAZING REPAIRS was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, an appro- He had been cheered by the survivors in the process’ requiring the when Justice Secretary, David priate honour for a remarkable young lady who at shattered East End of London, his part responsibil- We are specialists in burglary emergencies/sealed Gauke, to respond publicly with action to improve the age of 16 has the ability, like Sir David, to ity for the vicious Tory “hungry thirties’ forgiven. units (broken or steamed), friction hinges and stays, conditions within 28 days communicate eloquently and passionately about He kept his word, by taming his MPs until, in window and door handles, locks and lock replacement. Sadly, Boris Johnson has sacked Mr Gauge for climate change and its damage to our environment.