London (Heathrow) Airport, known as LAP, stands on area covering 2705 acres between Bath and Great South-West roads, about 14 mi from Charing Cross, London; it has 5 runways, long-and short-haul terminals, maintenance bases, one of finest air traffic control systems in world, and staff of 31,000; 50 airlines use airport and its facilities, latter including VDF, VOR, ILS, PAR, Calvert line and bar approach lighting system and visual glide path indicator; dimensions of runways and other particulars.


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    Title :

    LAP-London (Heathrow) airport


    Additional title:

    Shell Aviation News


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1961


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


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