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  • A exterior of the now ruined Shildon Engine House, on 29th September 2017, in Blanchland, Northumberland, England. Built around 1805 to house a Cornish pumping engine which kept the network of lead mines operating underneath from flooding. The North Pennines is known for its deposits of lead ore etc., a large part of the area's economy. In the 1840s an enormous steam engine was installed in an attempt to keep the mines dry enough to work. Following decommissioning, the engine house was converted to a series of flats for mining families. It was finally abandoned around 100 years ago and has been derelict ever since. The Engine House is a dramatic reminder of a once thriving lead mining community of 170 people. The population declined after the mid-1800s when cheaper lead began to be imported from abroad, and young Shildon families emigrated to the goldmining areas of Australia and America.
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  • A exterior of the now ruined Shildon Engine House, on 29th September 2017, in Blanchland, Northumberland, England. Built around 1805 to house a Cornish pumping engine which kept the network of lead mines operating underneath from flooding. The North Pennines is known for its deposits of lead ore etc., a large part of the area's economy. In the 1840s an enormous steam engine was installed in an attempt to keep the mines dry enough to work. Following decommissioning, the engine house was converted to a series of flats for mining families. It was finally abandoned around 100 years ago and has been derelict ever since. The Engine House is a dramatic reminder of a once thriving lead mining community of 170 people. The population declined after the mid-1800s when cheaper lead began to be imported from abroad, and young Shildon families emigrated to the goldmining areas of Australia and America.
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  • Detail of a Trent jet engine at British Rolls-Royce manufacturer's exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Rolls-Royce Trent is the name given to a family of three-spool, high bypass turbofan aircraft engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. The engine is named after the River Trent in the Midlands of England. The civil aerospace business is a major manufacturer of aero engines for all sectors of the airliner and corporate jet market. Rolls-Royce powers more than 30 types of commercial aircraft and has almost 13,000 engines in service around the world.
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  • Detail of a Trent jet engine at British Rolls-Royce manufacturer's exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Rolls-Royce Trent is the name given to a family of three-spool, high bypass turbofan aircraft engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. The engine is named after the River Trent in the Midlands of England. The civil aerospace business is a major manufacturer of aero engines for all sectors of the airliner and corporate jet market. Rolls-Royce powers more than 30 types of commercial aircraft and has almost 13,000 engines in service around the world.
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  • A full-size Trent jet engine is admired by delegates visiting British Rolls-Royce manufacturer's exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Rolls-Royce Trent is the name given to a family of three-spool, high bypass turbofan aircraft engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. The engine is named after the River Trent in the Midlands of England. The civil aerospace business is a major manufacturer of aero engines for all sectors of the airliner and corporate jet market. Rolls-Royce powers more than 30 types of commercial aircraft and has almost 13,000 engines in service around the world.
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  • A full-size Trent jet engine is admired by delegates visiting British Rolls-Royce manufacturer's exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Rolls-Royce Trent is the name given to a family of three-spool, high bypass turbofan aircraft engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. The engine is named after the River Trent in the Midlands of England. The civil aerospace business is a major manufacturer of aero engines for all sectors of the airliner and corporate jet market. Rolls-Royce powers more than 30 types of commercial aircraft and has almost 13,000 engines in service around the world.
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  • A full-size Trent jet engine is admired by delegates visiting British Rolls-Royce manufacturer's exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Rolls-Royce Trent is the name given to a family of three-spool, high bypass turbofan aircraft engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. The engine is named after the River Trent in the Midlands of England. The civil aerospace business is a major manufacturer of aero engines for all sectors of the airliner and corporate jet market. Rolls-Royce powers more than 30 types of commercial aircraft and has almost 13,000 engines in service around the world.
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  • Rolls of turf are rolled up by exhibition workers at the end of a long day at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Removing the real grass from at the CFM stand (a company formed from SNECMA and General Electric jet engines) that manufactures a family of 7,200 commercial and military jet engines for Airbus and Boeing airliners. The men bend over to make a tight roll of organic lawn to keep it fresh and watered overnight before another hot day in this hall. Alongside them, a giant turbofan engine is seen, its huge turbine blades lit by artificial lights. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
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  • A turbofan jet engine by MTU Aerospace on the company's exhibition stand at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England. at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England. MTU Friedrichshafen are the makers of engines and propulsion systems with its core business of Rolls-Royce Power Systems, a division of Rolls-Royce plc. Their headquarters are in Friedrichshafen, Germany and we employ over 10,000 people worldwide. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A Rolls-Royce turbofan has been fixed to the exterior of the company?s sales stand at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire, England. The British-owned company have been making aircraft engines since 1914 at the start of the First World War, in response to the nation's needs, Royce designed his first aero engine ? the Eagle. Modern airliners have the Trent engine's technology embedded in its power plants and Farnborough is a major showcase for its many designs. Here, their chalet has a mocked-up garden feature complete railings and the turbine blades attached to the wall above. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • An employee and potential buyer discuss potential business deals at the General Electric (GE) jexhibition stand during the Farnborough Airshow. The et engine manufacturer's main exhibit is a real GEnx turbofan engine that GE claim emits 15% less Co2 than conventional engines. The GEnx (General Electric Next-generation) is an advanced dual rotor, axial flow, high bypass turbofan in production by GE Aviation for the Boeing 787 and 747-8. The GEnx is intended to replace the CF6 in GE's product line.
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  • A young woman stands in front of a turbofan of engine manufacturer CFM during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Hours before a European Space Agency Ariane 5 rocket launch, a computer monitor displays cryogenic data at the CDL3 launch centre at ESA's Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana. It shows the status of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellant systems within a Vulcain engine. Stored in the launcher tanks and fed to the engine, they react chemically and expand in the engine combustion chamber then forced through the nozzle to provide the thrust that propels the vehicle into orbit. Cryogenic engines utilise propellants that are liquid under cryogenic conditions, at a temperature much lower than normal ambient conditions (-251°C for hydrogen and -184°C for oxygen). The advantage of cryogenic propellants is that they provide the highest thrust performance. .
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  • A visitor to the General Electric (GE) exhibition stand at Britain's Farnborough Air Show, points to a feature on a massive, GE90-115B turbofan jet engine. Powering Boeing 777 airliners with up to 115,000 Pounds of thrust, this is a state-of-the-art engine that entered service in April 2004 with Air France. Its giant blades are lit with blue stage lighting to make it look iconic and imposing, dominating this picture of technology and innovation. Such mechanical excellence attached to the world's aircraft are helping to make them quieter and more energy and fuel efficient at a time when oil prices are making air travel an expensive mode of transport.
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  • Airliners and grass promote the environment at engine manufacturer CFM stand during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • As flames ignite under the engine, firefighters attend a car fire in central London. A Ford car has caught fire in its engine compartment during the evening and firemen have been called to attend. With the bonnet open, fire is still seen beneath the engine and near front tyres where fuel and oil may be ready to ignite too. Pointing a hose into the seat of the fire, a firefighter sprays a pressured jet of water into the affected area.
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  • An engineer polishes a Thomas the Tank Engine locomotive whilst in sidings on the Bluebell Railway at Kingscote, England. The Bluebell Railway is a heritage line running for nine miles along the border between East and West Sussex, England. Steam trains are operated between Sheffield Park and Kingscote, with an intermediate station at Horsted Keynes. The railway is managed and run largely by volunteers. It has the largest collection (over 30) of steam locomotives in the UK, the first preserved standard gauge steam-operated passenger railway in the world to operate a public service, running its first train on 7 August 1960.
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  • During the Farnborough Airshow, out of focus in the background, visitors to the General Electric (GE) jet engine manufacturer study a real GEnx turbofan engine that GE claim emits 15% less Co2 than conventional engines. The GEnx (General Electric Next-generation) is an advanced dual rotor, axial flow, high bypass turbofan in production by GE Aviation for the Boeing 787 and 747-8. The GEnx is intended to replace the CF6 in GE's product line.
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  • During the Farnborough Airshow, out of focus in the background, visitors to the General Electric (GE) jet engine manufacturer study a real GEnx turbofan engine that GE claim emits 15% less Co2 than conventional engines. The GEnx (General Electric Next-generation) is an advanced dual rotor, axial flow, high bypass turbofan in production by GE Aviation for the Boeing 787 and 747-8. The GEnx is intended to replace the CF6 in GE's product line.
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  • Cabin crew hostess and engine turbofan blades of a Qatar Airways Boeing 787 at the Farnborough Air Show, UK.
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  • Traffic cones, a Boeing engine and pre-conditioned air duct during an airliner's overnight stop at Heathrow Airport.
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  • Traffic cones, a Boeing engine and pre-conditioned air duct during an airliner's overnight stop at Heathrow Airport.
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  • Writer Alain de Botton leans against a giant jet engine of manufacturer CFM during the the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget and while researching his book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Hamish Hamilton 2009).
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  • Propulsion engine specialist inspects internal Hawk of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
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  • Rolls-Royce Adour engine of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team in Squadron's hangar at RAF Scampton,
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  • With traffic cones arranged to avoid accidents in the darkness, the spinning turbofan blades of a British Airways Boeing jet aircraft are highlighted by the headlights of an airfield vehicle during the airliner's overnight turnaround at Heathrow Airport. The beauty of the engine's cowling and the wing to which it is attached shows the marvel of its engineering, of its magnificent aviation design. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).  Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • A British military officer walks past the Rolls-Royce corporate chalet at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The corporate message promising a trusted deliverence of excellence is read by the man as he passes the model of the aerospace company's jet engine.
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  • Rolls-Royce Adour engine of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team in Squadron's hangar at RAF Scampton,
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  • A detail of a child's deflated 'Thomas The Tank Engine' Anagram balloon that has landed, making it hazardous to wildlife, on marshland near Two Tree Island, at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • A detail of a child's deflated 'Thomas The Tank Engine' Anagram balloon that has landed, making it hazardous to wildlife, on marshland near Two Tree Island, at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • Aerial view (from control tower) of Virgin Atlantic airliner's wing and engine at London Heathrow airport.
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  • A boy spreads his hands and fingers out on a Gatwick South Terminal window. Outside is the nose of an American Northwest Airlines DC-10 with its third engine mounted high on the rear fuselage) that is parked at a satellite gate at London Gatwick airport. The boy is a silhouette against subdued light and the aircraft's nose resembles a shark's face that is menacingly close to the young child. Such is the flattening of perspective by a telephoto lens, the aircraft looks much closer than in reality. Gatwick airport, as well as Heathrow, Stansted, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Southampton in the UK, is owned and administered by BAA, the British Airport Authority.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Nasa Jumble Sale.An unidentified rocket and its engine assembly lies in the wasteland of Charles Bell's yard. An eccentric rocket scientist, he was part of the NASA space programme since the 1950's collected treasures and redundent equipment from the earliest days of space travel.
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  • Aerial view (from control tower) of Virgin Atlantic airliner's wing and engine at London Heathrow airport.
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  • Propulsion engine specialist inspects internal Hawk of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
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  • High up in the picture, two employees (one in traditional Arab clothes, the other in western dress) of Bahrain International Airport stand on the edge of a passenger 'air bridge' to oversee the departure of an airliner at Bahrain International Airport as it is pushed back by an unseen airport vehicle. It is night time and the ramp (or aircraft parking tarmac) is illuminated by yellow artificial light with the bridge itself, lit my overhead fluorescent tubes that give a blue-green tint above the mens' heads who watch the nose of a departing airliner. It is slowly taken backwards on its way to the runway take-off  position with its passengers on-board. We see only the fuselage, wings and part of its engine cowlings but not the undercarriage wheels, nor the ground itself. The men look as if they are floating in mid-air, being disembodied from the rest of the airfield's equipment.
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  • Traffic cones guard against night time accidents under a Boeing engine during an airliner's overnight stop at Heathrow Airport
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  • London 8th September 2012: A fire breaks out in the empty buildings of a former primary school called Bessemer Grange, off Denmark Hill in the south London borough of Southwark. The former pre-school structure was eventually gutted after six fire engines and 30 firefighters  of the London Fire Brigade ?arrived to douse the flames which had already taken hold of the prefabricated structure. Bessemer Grange junior school and the current nursery occupies a location across the road and is on the former site of Victorian iron magnate, Henry Bessemer's mansion.
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  • A General Electric advertisement for its airliner engines near security departure gate at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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  • In mid-flight over Greater London, we see a passenger?s view of a turning airliner's wing and the capital's dusk landscape below at a low altitude. As the starboard (right) wing dips, the Virgin Atlantic Airbus banks and a long exposure blurs the city lights below. A small curved portion of the passenger window, red engines and the Union Jack colours are seen. As aerodynamic design, the flying machine is a perfect gesture towards the conquest of flight, copied from the characteristics of a bird?s anatomy. As art, the mere beauty of taking to the air and maintaining level, organised speed is so routine, we rarely look our from our window to marvel at how and why. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • Detail of fan blades of a Qatar Airways Airbus A350-1000 at the Farnborough Airshow, on 18th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
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  • The Boeing-manufactured 787 Dreamliner (N787BX) at the Farnborough Airshow.
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  • The Boeing-manufactured 787 Dreamliner (N787BX) at the Farnborough Airshow.
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  • Qatar Airways pilots and fan blades of an Airbus A350-1000 at the Farnborough Airshow, on 18th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
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  • The Boeing-manufactured 787 Dreamliner (N787BX) at the Farnborough Airshow.
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  • Visitors to the General Electric (GE) exhibition stand at England's Farnborough Airshow.
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  • Visitors to the General Electric (GE) exhibition stand at England's Farnborough Airshow.
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  • Attempting to Cold-start a car with jump leads in a residential Norwood street, South London during a severe winter.
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  • An M62 Zeppelin diesel locomotive from the '60s still in service at a rural station near Porva-Csesznek, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
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  • A night-time exposure during the flight over a city in rural Arizona whose lights are blurred underneath the twin-propeller powered aircraft, an air ambulance ferrying a patient to hospital. The British Aerospace BAe-3101 Jetstream 31 is an air ambulance en-route from San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona, USA. Native American Air Services, provides critical care level air ambulance services in Arizona. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Mesa, Arizona. The San Carlos Reservation is one of the poorest Native American communities in the United States, with an annual median household income of approximately $14,000 in 2000, according to the US Census. About 60% of the people live under the poverty line, and 68% of the active labor force is unemployed
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  • A band tour bus with horse and sea artwork parks at a petrol filling station in early evening at Mojave, California, USA
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  • The BAE Systems Typhoon exhibit at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A Google Street View mapping car drives alongside a public park in the borough of Lambeth,on 1st June 2017, in south London, England.
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  • Aerial view (from control tower) of generic airliner at London Heathrow airport.
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  • Suspended above the heads of space tourists are an Apollo rocket stage for the Saturn V rocket and a Lunar Module.
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  • A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging an electronic Daimler-Chrysler-made Smart car.
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  • A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging an electronic Daimler-Chrysler-made Smart car.
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  • Near the junction of the 400 to Buckhead, the 401 highway divides and splits during afternoon rush-hour traffic which slows and builds up so that vehicles and cars back-up as they head home and out of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The inner median is coned off during some construction work which slows the traffic even more. Crossing the 5-lane road comes a train of Atlanta's own mass-transit system, the MARTA network and it approaches the overpass with care. We see the infrastructure of a modern metropolis at the busiest time of day when the exodus to get home puts the roads and feeder lanes under the most pressure. Fortunately, the weather is fine with good visibility making drivers' journeys a little shorter and more tolerable but it shows too America's habit and dependency on car culture.
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  • The A30 highway runs deep into the South-West of England - from Exeter in the county of Devon to Penzance in the narrow peninsular of Cornwall. On certain dates in the calendar routes like this, near the Cornish town of Bodmin, England, come to a standstill from the huge volume of cars and private vehicles, all heading down to costal resorts and better weather. We see here a huge tailback of traffic that is queueing along one side of the British dual-carriageway (two lanes in each direction) from close-up  to the distance down and up a natural hill in this undulating landscape. The cars have edged forward are nose to tail for hours in summer heatwave and tempers fray, children arguing in the back and an otherwise relaxed holiday mood suddenly goes bad.
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  • A male chauffeur of African-descent makes a mobile telephone call at the Rolls-Royce chalet at the Paris Air Show exhibition
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  • Moving fast past a farmhouse building on a busy UK A road, unseen traffic leaves its light trails on an otherwise dark winter night near the giant DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Some rooms are lit in this remote residence which show signs of occupation. Red tail lights from cars, lorries and trucks streak by with tall traces of container traffic leaves light on the picture, diagonally leaving their mark. It is a very busy highway on which to own a home but this infrastructure is a vital route that keeps Britain's logistics moving across the country 24/7.
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  • Potential buyers discuss airliner engine business with Rolls-Royce employee at the Farnborough Air Show.
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  • Wearing ear-defenders,military green camouflage and fluorescent tabard, a 'line' engineer from the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, inserts his head into the jet pipe of a Hawk aircraft immediately after a winter training flight at the team's headquarters at a damp RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. The man is a member of the team's support ground crew (called the Blues because of their distinctive blue overalls worn at summer air shows). Checking for irregular blemishes within the aircraft's exhaust is a vital aspect of maintenance jets whose engines need to perform as the highest level, especially if its performance, and that of each pilot's manoeuvres need to be perfect. Power reduction can ruin a display for tens of thousands of spectators but an engine failure could be catastrophic..
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  • Flight Lieutenant Dave Slow of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is seated in a BAE Systems Hawk jet aircraft simulator at the fast-jet flying training centre, RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. Like all fast-jet pilots, Flight Lieutenant Slow is required to complete this emergency drill every six months. The pilot is seated in his ejector seat as if in a real jet using back-projected computer graphics representing a generic landscape below. Each aviator proves they can cope with a series of failures that operators select: Engine, hydraulic failure or bird strike.  Apart from the aircraft fuselage, the high-tech facility loads malfunctions on a pilot that he could experience in reality. The version of Hawk that the Red Arrows fly is actually a primitive piece of equipment, without computers or fly-by-wire technology.
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  • Propulsion engine specialist inspects internal Hawk of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
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  • A blue Indian Ocean and remote atolls in the Republic of the Maldives are far below an Airbus port wing and CFM engines.
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  • Clouds and blue sky above the Indian Ocean are far below a Sri Lankan Airbus aircraft port wing and CFM engines.
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  • Late night work on a cargo pallet Ball Mat Flooring System by an engineer staff member who performs maintenance checks in the British Airways engineering hangar on the far side of London's Heathrow airport. On his hands and knees in the otherwise spacious compartment beneath the aircraft passengers' cabin, the hold is used for storing cargo freight and baggage containers that are pushed freely along then locked into position during the loading process.
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  • Engineer airframe specialist Junior Technician Barry Pritchard of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, forms part of the team's highly-skilled group of support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1. Here J/Tech Pritchard straddles the fuselage of  the Hawk jet aircraft performing a Ram Air Turbine (RAT) jack change in the squadron hangar. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. The team's aircraft are in some cases 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent overhauls needed. In these shelters were housed the Lancaster bombers 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. The Red Arrows nearby offices as their administrative nerve-centre for the 90-plus displays they perform a year. .
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  • Junior Technician Brian Robb, an engineer with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, shines his torch inside the flaps of a Hawk jet aircraft checking for obstructions, RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Wearing ear defenders clasped to his head, J/Tech Robb peers into the wing assembly during a pre-flight inspection before the pilot emerges from for another winter training flight. Robb is a member of the team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.  Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. Crouching by an RAF roundel emblem, he wears an army style green camouflage coat as protection over the biting Lincolnshire wind, and a fluorescent tabard required for any personnel working on the 'line', where the aircraft taxi to and park. .
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  • During a lull in activity, a Boeing 747 is swathed in engineering gantries during a major check (maintenance schedule) at the British Airways Heathrow base in London England. As if in a hospital ER several metres off the ground, yellow struts surround the aircraft's forward nose section and the first class windows along the white fuselage allowing mechanics, engineers and avionics specialists unimpeded access to every element of the air frame. Neon tubes illuminate the hangar that houses airliners, serviced here between transcontinental commercial passenger flights.
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  • An airline flight-engineer occupies his own seat in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 - before the era arrived when technology made his role as a third flight crew member redundant. With a bowl of fresh fruit beside his seat, the male member of the flight-deck crew watches instruments and readings in front of the unseen pilots at the front. Wearing the three stripes designating his rank and seniority within his unspecified airline, the specialist's skills are in engineering systems that maintain efficient flight. When introduced, the Boeing 747-400 model was equipped with a two-crew glass cockpit, which dispensed with the need for a flight engineer - many of whom lost their jobs or retrained as pilots themselves.
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  • A Boeing 747 is surrounded by gantries during late night work by engineering staff who perform maintenance checks in the British Airways engineering hangar on the far side of London's Heathrow airport. As a landscape of confusing lines and linear design, we see the paintwork of the jet aircraft echoed in those of the platform struts and the steps that help the maintenance crews gain height and access to the high places required for the work to be carried out. At its tallest point, the 747's tail is 63 feet (19m).
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  • Military jet fighter engines awaiting recycling for scrap value in arid desert at Davis Monthan facility, Tucson, Arizona.  A landscape of old technology, the relics of former wars and air supremacy now reduced to aluminium and sprayed IDs. Jet pipes and power plants, the energy to get multi-million aircraft into the air to attack or defend territory and culture. These retired aircraft engines whose air frames are too old for flight are being stored then recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total at this repository for old military fighter and bomber aircraft.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team push a BAE Systems Hawk jet into position.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, make repairs between training flights.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, in the build-up to the Fairford airshow.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, consult technical information on Mod computers.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, makes last pre-flight checks before training flight.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, makes last pre-flight checks before training flight.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, makes last pre-flight checks before training flight.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, await pilots to sign flight manuals before  flight
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  • Engineer ground staff perform scheduled maintenance to a Hawk jet in the hangar of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform scheduled maintenance on Hawk equipment.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, during turnarounds of training flights.
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  • Engineer working on maintenance duties with equipment of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, during turnarounds of training flights.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, rest in the shade before working on their Hawk jets.
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  • Drying blue overalls belonging to engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Resting Blues ground staff engineers await return of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Resting Blues ground staff engineers await return of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team shelter from weather on airfield apron.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, coils up anti-static cable after refuelling a Hawk.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, during turnarounds of training flights.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, makes repairs to a BAE Systems Hawk nosewheel.
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  • Engineering specialists perform routine maintenance in the Red Arrows team hangar. Dressed in their green overalls, members of the Red Arrows 'Blues' the back-up team, (so-called after their distinctive blue overalls worn only during the summer) perform routine engineering tasks in the hangar at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. The better-educated officers in the armed forces enjoy a more privileged lifestyle than their support staff. In the aerobatic squadron, the Blues outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Some of the team's Hawks are 25 years old and their air frames require constant attention, with increasingly frequent major overhauls due..
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  • An engineer working underground during construction of the Heathrow Express train project on behalf of Heathrow airport operator BAA (British Airport Authority), London England. While standing erect, he twists a high-tension tool that secures the concrete sleepers to the steel rails using a Pandrol Clip. The tunnel snakes its way into the distance behind him, lit by temporary lighting on the 5-mile tunnel wall. Its sections are reinforced concrete, shaped for the Heathrow Express electric Siemens-built trains that provide a direct link between Heathrow's terminals and Paddington station in central London. This is now the most expensive rail-mile fare in the UK at £15.50 for a 15-minute journey. In 1994 one tunnel collapsed without warning in one of the most catastrophic civil engineering disasters in British history.
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  • A member of British AIrways' Engineering explains technical jargon to author Alain de Botton while writing his Heathrow book.
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  • In the darkness of a taxiway at the southern end of Heathrow Airport, the bright lights of an engineering hangar spill out into the night. A Boeing 747 Jumbo jet sits nose-in behind another during a scheduled set of maintenance tasks that every aircraft needs to keep to in order for its continued airworthiness. The unmistakable shape of this large aircraft is a half-silhouette against the intensity of the hangar and blue flare spots that arise from the internal glass in the camera's lens. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • Specialist Corporal Mal Faulder is an armourer engineer (qualified to handle ejection seats and weaponry on military jets) but here in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team he is seen polishing the aircraft's flying surfaces using wool and cleaning fluid on the morning of the team's PDA Day. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Corporal Faulder is to buff up the airplane for an extra special shine on such an important day and we see the UK's Union Jack flag on the side of the diagonal stripes of the tail fin. The Red Arrows ground crew take enormous pride in their role as supporting the aviators whose air displays are known around the world. Blues like Mal outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
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