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• Your chance to help test a prototype aircraft design

  23-10-2024 18:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Would you like to see inside a protoype aircraft design and help test its evacuation processes? Then you’re in luck!
  The prototype plane is a Blended-Wing Body aircraft (BWB). Unlike current passenger aeroplanes, which are essentially long tubes with two wings, BWB planes don’t have a clear divide between the wings and the main body of the aeroplane. As a result,they should be quieter and use less fuel to carry passengers.
  However, due to the unusual design, designers of the new plan
  
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• The London Buzz – 23rd October 2024

  23-10-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  There is no memorial in Newham to Frank Arthur Bailey, England’s first post-war black firefighting pioneer. It’s worth asking why not. Newham Voices
  An experiment measuring noise decibels on the London Underground has revealed that tube trains can be louder than a music concert at its top speed. Independent
  The Cabbies’ Shelters Of Old London Spitalfields Life
  A cherished east London LGBTQ+ bookshop at risk of closure has turned to Crowdfund
  
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• Disused subway transformed into central London’s largest rainwater collection system

  23-10-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work to convert a disused underpass into central London’s largest sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) has been completed.Located at the busy Marylebone Flyover, more than 3,500 square metres of rainwater collection area has been installed in the disused subway, known locally as the Joe Strummer Subway, where the late punk frontman was known to busk and entertain passers-by before he hit fame with The Clash.
  Before being filled in
  The ramps and stairs of the disused underpass system,
  
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• Last piece of London 2012 Olympics legacy land to become a rail freight centre

  23-10-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The last large plot of land left over from the London 2012 Olympics, sitting close to the ABBA arena, will be regenerated into a rail freight campus and last-mile logistics hub.
  Bow Goods Yard side – red highlight over Google Map
  At the London Legacy Development Corporation’s (LLDC) final planning meeting before it hands its powers back to the local councils, the LLDC approved the application to regenerate over 30 acres of brownfield land at the Bow Goods Yard.
  Bow Goods Yard is curr
  
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• Book – How transit maps around the globe reveal unique design choices

  23-10-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  We’re all familiar with London’s famous tube map, but maybe less so with how other cities display their metro maps, and now a book has brought many of them together.Map author Mark Ovenden’s latest book examines 53 cities worldwide, from Algiers to Washington, D.C.
  London unsurprisingly gets a lot more space than most cities but is dwarfed by the space given to Berlin. What’s fascinating is how the maps—officially diagrams—can look instantly familiar and yet s
  
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• London’s Public Art: Head of Oscar Wilde, SW3

  23-10-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In 1998, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi was commissioned to produce a large sculpture of Oscar Wilde for Chelsea, and in 2024, it’s finally been delivered.The lengthy delay was partly because of the artist’s death in 2005, and various other priorities got in the way. However, to coincide with Paolozzi’s centenary and Wilde’s 170th birthday, a postumous casting of the model created for the sculpture was commissioned, and the artwork is now, at very long last, on public display.
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