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Heathrow Airport Closed
« on: 21 March 2025, 07:05:55 »

Sabotage?  ???

Could this be the work of Vlad, sending Sir Starmer a message to stop rattling his sabres?  :-X
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #1 on: 21 March 2025, 07:10:14 »

My money is on an electric car charger self combusting. >:D

It's going to screw up a lot of people.

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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #2 on: 21 March 2025, 08:11:46 »

But why was the back up generator also “ disabled”. Surely all major infrastructure has back up power?

My money is on cheap hybrid warfare. The human cost is immense but no lives lost.
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #3 on: 21 March 2025, 08:42:54 »

But why was the back up generator also “ disabled”. Surely all major infrastructure has back up power?

My money is on cheap hybrid warfare. The human cost is immense but no lives lost.

They probably decided not to turn on the generator because of the emissions!  ;D
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #4 on: 21 March 2025, 09:19:23 »

Brexit.  :y
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #5 on: 21 March 2025, 09:52:55 »

Brexit.  :y

Beat me to it!

Does that mean I'm allowed to blame the immigrants?  ;)
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #6 on: 21 March 2025, 10:19:30 »

Oh dear what a shame, don't care it's my birthday & we're out on the piss and a lovely lunch at the George in Stamford so it won't affect me..🍺🎂🍺🎂🍺🎂
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #7 on: 21 March 2025, 12:55:52 »

The backup generator needed to run that lot would be enormous, its some what insanity to think there would be enough sat around to cover it.

I recall when I worked at Alsthom in the 90s we had a couple of Avons which ran as emergency generators and they were not nearly able to supply enough power to run the site (but could do enough to keep some key system working where by if the job was stopped the result would be loads of scrapped material/product). Heathrow's demand just for Terminals 1-3 would be many many times that
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #8 on: 21 March 2025, 14:05:43 »

Oh dear what a shame, don't care it's my birthday & we're out on the piss and a lovely lunch at the George in Stamford so it won't affect me..🍺🎂🍺🎂🍺🎂
A really nice place to spend a relaxing afternoon. Especially beside the fire in winter.  :y
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #9 on: 21 March 2025, 14:22:30 »

The backup generator needed to run that lot would be enormous, its some what insanity to think there would be enough sat around to cover it.

I recall when I worked at Alsthom in the 90s we had a couple of Avons which ran as emergency generators and they were not nearly able to supply enough power to run the site (but could do enough to keep some key system working where by if the job was stopped the result would be loads of scrapped material/product). Heathrow's demand just for Terminals 1-3 would be many many times that

But running on minimal supply? Or better still have redundancy built in with an alternative supply? Either way , whatever the cause, hopefully a wake-up call to vital infrastructure.
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #10 on: 21 March 2025, 14:40:04 »

Gatwick has recently gone all electric for their Airfield and security vehicles... Got a load of VW ID3s on clearance. They've gradually been gearing up their charging points... One got wired backwards and when all the cars where plugged into it, it blew and took out all the ground lighting, including the runway and taxiway lights >:D
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #11 on: 21 March 2025, 15:31:00 »

Oh dear what a shame, don't care it's my birthday & we're out on the piss and a lovely lunch at the George in Stamford so it won't affect me..🍺🎂🍺🎂🍺🎂
A really nice place to spend a relaxing afternoon. Especially beside the fire in winter.  :y
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Yes indeed its our favourite pub/restaurant/hotel always superb food & service and never any yobbos or screaming uncontrolled kids, home now so brandy is out for the evening 👍
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #12 on: 21 March 2025, 15:55:57 »

Oh dear what a shame, don't care it's my birthday & we're out on the piss and a lovely lunch at the George in Stamford so it won't affect me..🍺🎂🍺🎂🍺🎂
A really nice place to spend a relaxing afternoon. Especially beside the fire in winter.  :y
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Yes indeed its our favourite pub/restaurant/hotel always superb food & service and never any yobbos or screaming uncontrolled kids, home now so brandy is out for the evening 👍
Great isn't it. By the way, Happy Birthday  :)
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Re: Heathrow Airport Closed
« Reply #13 on: 21 March 2025, 16:59:33 »

Oh dear what a shame, don't care it's my birthday & we're out on the piss and a lovely lunch at the George in Stamford so it won't affect me..🍺🎂🍺🎂🍺🎂
A really nice place to spend a relaxing afternoon. Especially beside the fire in winter.  :y
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Great isn't it. By the way, Happy Birthday  :)
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« Reply #14 on: 21 March 2025, 17:09:44 »

Happy Birthday Mick!  :y
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