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New London airport - right on the water

The idea of placing the airport as close as possible to the business centre of London had been in the mind of architects since the 30s of XX century. After 100 years, this bold idea has become a reality. New London Britannia Airport was built in the Thames estuary.

The terminals are placed on giant floating platforms and connected via underwater tunnels. A unique feature of the project is that most of the energy required is generated by water turbines, located in the immediate vicinity of the floating runways. Because of its proximity to the centre of a populous city, a special emphasis is placed on airport security systems, first of all - the protection of intelligent control systems.

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Barry Brickell Boris Island Airport makes sense but won't happen for at least 30 years. Infrastructure project in the UK take far too long at the planning stages. They'll also have to sort out the SS Richard Montgomery first if they don't want to face a rather explosive situation.
25 Feb 2023
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Joshua Jay Foreman on youtube spoke about this
26 Aug 2022
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Pérez Hilario Aislind Jazmín I find this to be quite interesting, it is a project that seems viable because of the way they explain the use of technology, I think that the functioning that will have the airport it will be very good, because at the end clean energy will be used. It's a good project that will take time
08 Sep 2021
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Rodríguez López Gabriel I think it is something really possible by the way he explain it and because the technology required to do that isn't very advanced but I think it would take a long time to finish it.
06 Sep 2021
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