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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.
    747_hangar01-17-11-2000.jpg
  • 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).
    ba_engineering01-23-11-2000 15-08-13.jpg
  • A Boeing 747 is surrounded by gantries during late night work by engineering staff 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).
    ba_engineering03-23-11-2000.jpg
  • 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). .
    heathrow_airport1564-19-08-2009.jpg
  • An Ariane 5 rocket booster in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency, Kourou..
    esa_guiana18915-08-2007.jpg
  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Apollo astronaut walkway structure..Charles Bell's collection of cumbersome rockets, gantries, fuel tanks and browsers lay overgrown in what had become a snake-infested wilderness. One of the Apollo gantries or walkways that the astronauts would have ambled along with their oxygen packs towards the waiting capsule. They now sit rusting awaiting scrap dealers.
    Nasa09 RBA.jpg
  • 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 flying machines which are serviced here between transcontinental commercial passenger flights. 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. .
    aviation_corbis20-17-11-2000.jpg
  • Construction crane and tall gantry tower that is tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge,, on 20th October 2017, in London, England.
    gantry_crane-02-20-10-2017.jpg
  • Construction workers erect a growing gantry that is tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 17th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England.
    blackfriars-06-17-10-2017.jpg
  • Construction and a tall gantry tower tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 27th October 2017, in London, England.
    blackfriars_crane-10-27-10-2017.jpg
  • A construction worker reaches the very top of a tall gantry tower next to a crane tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 27th October 2017, in London, England.
    blackfriars_crane-09-27-10-2017.jpg
  • A construction worker reaches the very top of a tall gantry tower next to a crane tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 27th October 2017, in London, England.
    blackfriars_crane-08-27-10-2017.jpg
  • A construction worker climbs a tall gantry tower next to a crane tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 27th October 2017, in London, England.
    blackfriars_crane-02-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Construction workers erect a growing gantry that is tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 17th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England.
    blackfriars-07-17-10-2017.jpg
  • A construction worker climbs a tall gantry tower next to a crane tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 27th October 2017, in London, England.
    blackfriars_crane-07-27-10-2017.jpg
  • A construction worker climbs a tall gantry tower next to a crane tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 27th October 2017, in London, England.
    blackfriars_crane-06-27-10-2017.jpg
  • A construction worker climbs a tall gantry tower next to a crane tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 27th October 2017, in London, England.
    blackfriars_crane-04-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Construction crane and tall gantry tower that is tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge,, on 20th October 2017, in London, England.
    gantry_crane-01-20-10-2017.jpg
  • A construction worker climbs a tall gantry tower next to a crane tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 27th October 2017, in London, England.
    blackfriars_crane-03-27-10-2017.jpg
  • A construction worker climbs a tall gantry tower next to a crane tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 27th October 2017, in London, England.
    blackfriars_crane-01-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Construction workers erect a growing gantry that is tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 17th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England.
    blackfriars-03-17-10-2017.jpg
  • A rusting and peeling gantry in the old passenger Tilbury cruise terminal, Essex.
    tilbury_terminal-06-18-09-2016.jpg
  • A construction worker climbs a gantry of enclosed outdoor steps on a central London site, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
    construction_worker-01-05-03-2018.jpg
  • Construction crane and tall gantry tower that is tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge,, on 20th October 2017, in London, England.
    gantry_crane-03-20-10-2017.jpg
  • Construction workers erect a growing gantry that is tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 17th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England.
    blackfriars-05-17-10-2017.jpg
  • With orange sparks falling away below, a shipbuilder welds while standing on a scaffolding gantry on the hull of a large German ferry at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the worker wears a protective hood on his head. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard11-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Potential customers in the cockpit of an M-346FA jet fighter, get a briefing from staff the Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica) exhibition stand at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    farnborough_airshow-120-16-07-2018.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-27-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Two shipbuilders chat beneath the heavy lifting cranes at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the two men in the foreground and those behind, wear bright yellow hard hats, protecting them from steel edges and rusting machinery. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard07-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Member country flags on Ariane 5 rocket booster in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency..
    esa_guiana19715-08-2007.jpg
  • An Ariane 5 rocket booster in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency, Kourou..
    esa_guiana19615-08-2007.jpg
  • Technician manager with Ariane 5 rocket booster in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency..
    esa_guiana19215-08-2007.jpg
  • A picture of St. Paul's cathedral dome and some construction background of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-29-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-24-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-17-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-12-27-10-2017.jpg
  • A competitor in the annual Birdman of Bognor event attempts to fly at Bognor Regis, East Sussex, England. English eccentrics gather annually at the southern seaside town to jump from the pier into the chilly waters of the English Channel. Fun jumpers ?wearing? their aeroplane suits compete for a £25,000 prize for the one to fly 100 metres from the pier platform ? a record not yet achieved. Entrants (who often jump for charity rather than any aeronautical pretensions) include sugar plum fairies, condoms, Ninja Turtles and vampires. The winner was a hang-glider pilot reaching 26 metres but here, a Spitfire sponsored by a milk company drops vertically. 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. .
    aviation_corbis22-27-05-2001.jpg
  • HMS Vigilant, a 15,000 ton Vanguard class nuclear submarine docked at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Scotland.
    5105-RPB59-faslane203-26-09-2007.jpg
  • About to board their Sri Lankan airlines flight to the Maldives, crowds of economy class passengers stand and make an orderly queue when their flight has been called by ground staff at London Heathrow airport England. Lines of people from all nations can be seen reflected in a large window that also overlooks the airport apron where their front-facing Airbus A340-300 aircraft awaits them, its flight-deck crew is seen in the cockpit readying their plane for the long night journey ahead. Catering service trucks are parked alongside the aircraft, loading supplies and all is on schedule from this large intercontinental airport hub to the much smaller island airfield in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the idyllic destination for holidaying Europeans.
    maldives01-10-11-2007.jpg
  • A picture of St. Paul's cathedral dome and some construction background of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-30-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-23-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-26-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-10-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Steps on the boardwalk in the old passenger Tilbury cruise terminal, Essex.
    tilbury_terminal-08-18-09-2016.jpg
  • Stage hand of the rock band Status Quo adjusts overhead lights high above the stage while on European tour at in Lille, France.
    status_quo002-15-10-2007.jpg
  • About to board their Sri Lankan airlines flight to the Maldives, crowds of economy class passengers stand and make an orderly queue when their flight has been called by ground staff at London Heathrow airport England. Lines of people from all nations can be seen reflected in a large window that also overlooks the airport apron where their front-facing Airbus A340-300 aircraft awaits them, its flight-deck crew is seen in the cockpit readying their plane for the long night journey ahead. Catering service trucks are parked alongside the aircraft, loading supplies and all is on schedule from this large intercontinental airport hub to the much smaller island airfield in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the idyllic destination for holidaying Europeans.
    maldives01-10-11-2007.jpg
  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Gantries and tracking equipment in the wasteland..Rocket gantries and tracking equipment left to rust in the back yard of NASA scientist Charles Bell. Assorted rocket paraphenalia. At the very back of the auction site, a whole jungle of Apollo and Shuttle junk was buried in the undergrowth having been forgotten there for decades. Here we see gantries and tracking (communications) structures.
    Nasa04 RBA.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-06-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of Battersea Dogs Home and cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-03-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-05-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-04-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 11th February 2020, in London, England.
    power_station-01-11-02-2020.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-02-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-01-04-12-2019.jpg
  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Chemical suits. NASA chemical suits hang on their rack at the space junk auction. Hanging Scape Suits before the auction. Confusingly, these are not space suits as worn by astronauts but chemical protection suits for those working with chemicals and liquid oxygen on the giant gantries that stood alongside the rockets. They were sold for $60 each and now appear on e-bay.com.
    Nasa08 RBA.jpg
  • As a London bus crosses the Thames river, the British Union Jack flag flies from the upper gantry of Victorian-era Tower Bridge, near the modern Walkie Talkie building (aka 20 Fenchurch Street), on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    tower_bridge-02-13-09-2017.jpg
  • As London buses cross the Thames river, the British Union Jack flag flies from the upper gantry of Victorian-era Tower Bridge, near the modern Walkie Talkie building (aka 20 Fenchurch Street), on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    tower_bridge-16-13-09-2017.jpg
  • As a London bus crosses the Thames river, the British Union Jack flag flies from the upper gantry of Victorian-era Tower Bridge, near the modern Walkie Talkie building (aka 20 Fenchurch Street), on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    tower_bridge-04-13-09-2017.jpg
  • The Monday morning following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th we see commuters disembarking from the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Manhattan. Bravely returning to office desks they find their city skyline missing the Twin Towers with Manhattan still in a state of perpetual shock and still under a mist of smoke from the debris at Ground Zero. To celebrate the return to commercial near-normality, New Yorkers' spirit was proved intact by the hanging of US flags from buildings. An American flag hangs over the workers walking along a exit gantry before emerging into the morning before another working day.
    september11th012-16-09_2001.jpg
  • Aerial view through scaffolding of the of the Gdansk shipyard, from a high gantry overlooking ships, Gdansk, Poland.
    gdansk_shipyard06-03-09-2007.jpg
  • A Parachute Regiment recruit is in mid-flight and leaps across a wide space between scaffolding and a rope net during the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Seen in silhouette, the man is in full stretch, half-way between the gantry he leapt from and the rope net that he is about to meet. It is an image that describes a mid-point, a half-way position between safety and uncertainty. Known as the Trainasium, it is an 'Aerial Confidence Course' which is unique to P Company. In order to assess his suitability for military parachuting, the Trainasium tests a candiates ability to overcome fear and carry out simple activities and instructions at a height above ground level. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire, need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    RB-0075.jpg
  • The writer, essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton stands in front of a mural of a Soyuz rocket of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) taking off from a mobile gantry at the European Space Agency (ESA). De Botton is in French Guiana researching his book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' published in April 2009. The illustration celebrates a future Russian mission if construction of their new facilities continues with the help of the French and other space agencies. Cosmonauts and technicians will ooccupy a purpose-built town near ESA's rocket complex. Alain de Botton (born Zurich, 1969) now lives in London. His best-selling books refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'
    esa_guiana10814-08-2007.jpg
  • Looking up from a walkway gantry to Londoners and visitors on London Bridge in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-15-10-10-2018.jpg
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