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A history of low-flying aircraft
• IN the 1960s it was a regular complaint among local Hampstead residents with professional knowledge of aircraft that aeroplanes flying in across Hampstead Heath were flying too low and not maintaining the legally required height.
The reason appeared to be that to maintain the proper height, the pilots should have taken the aeroplanes back up to a greater height while approaching Hampstead and Parliament Hill and then descended in a much steeper curve towards Heathrow. The pilots didn’t like doing that.
We now read that Camden, Hampstead and the Heath will become an extension, for all practical purposes, of the new proposed third Heathrow runway, with take-offs “every few minutes” (Heath could do without the ‘Heathrow’ effect, November 29).
Perhaps the take-offs won’t be quite as bad as the landings used to be, but it will be noisy enough.
We have already had a brief taste of this during the week after 9/11 when, for a few days, aeroplanes were diverted over Hampstead and Swiss Cottage. I would urge everybody to get in touch with, and join, the UK Noise Association, Broken Wharf House, 2 Broken Wharf, London EC4V 3DT, telephone 020 7329 0774. See www.ukna.org.uk and www.noiseresource.org
The UK Noise Association works closely with the All-Party Group for Noise Reduction and AirportWatch, with leading technical and legal experts and with organisations in Britain, Europe and the US.
Another idea would be for everyone to write to Ken Livingstone.
He should know if all the new third runway aeroplanes will be flying over his house in Cricklewood.
ANNE - LISE GOTZSCHE
Harben Road, NW6
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