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5 unusual facts about "Heathrow, Erding


107th Airlift Wing

On the first of those days, when it escorted bombers to a target in Germany and then attacked an aerodrome near Erding, the group destroyed or damaged many enemy planes despite the intense fire it encountered from anti-aircraft guns and small arms.

Dixon Ticonderoga Company

The Dixon Ticonderoga Company is an office and art supplies maker from the USA, with headquarters in Heathrow, Florida, which offers a number of brands.

Heathrow, Florida

The area had been a source of celery used in making his Chun King Foods American Chinese style food.

Lucius D. Clay, Jr.

Following World War II, Clay remained in Germany and served as deputy commander and deputy for base services with the European Air Depot, Erding, Germany.

WALQ

In October 1999, Hughey Communications, Inc., made a deal to sell the station to Progressive United Communications, Inc., of Heathrow, Florida.



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Aar Maanta

In protest, he staged a re-enactment of one such interrogation at Heathrow in the music video for his single "Deeqa".

Airspace class

The London Control Zone around Heathrow and the Channel Islands Control Zone; these areas are thus off-limits to VFR flights (however Special VFR is used as a get-around for this).

AirTrack

Heathrow Airtrack - the original name for the proposed new UK rail links from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5

British Airways Engineering

Today, British Airways Engineering has hangars at Heathrow (its base), Gatwick, Glasgow and Cardiff International airports as well as hundreds of line maintenance stations (engineers based around the world to do minor 'line' maintenance such as routine daily inspections or minor repairs).

British Mediterranean Airways

On 5 April 2007, G-MEDL was used to return 15 British Navy personnel captured by Iranian forces from Tehran to London Heathrow.

Busiest airports in the United Kingdom by total passenger traffic

London HeathrowTerminal 5 opened on 27 March 2008, increasing the total passenger numbers potentially to over 90 million, possibly making Heathrow the world's busiest airport.

Capital Logistics

Capital Logistics also operated Connections branded Optare Excels on local Uxbridge - Heathrow route U3 and the ex-Green Line route 726 gained from London Coaches, replacing the Ikarus 480-bodied DAF SB220s initially used.

Chinese exonyms

"London Heathrow Airport" is usually rendered in Chinese text as 倫敦希斯路機場 (Lúndūn Xīsīlù Jīchǎng), with the English pronunciation of 'London' fairly accurate, and of 'Heathrow' less accurate: literally as Chinese this means "kinship, honest" (for London), "hope/rare, given/this, road" (for Heathrow), "aircraft, field", with the last syllable of "Heathrow" rendered as "lu" although the more accurate "lo" and "lou" are known Chinese words.

Courtney Coventry

She was flown to UK by the Metropolitan Police at British taxpayers' expense on the day before Tony Blair was to resign from office, 26 June 2007 where she was met at London's Heathrow Airport by plainclothes police escorts.

Delroy Edwards

Despite his claims of persecution (including an incident in which he been warned by an unidentified individual that he would be killed if he returned to Jamaica) as well as demonstrating his previous wounds he had received in his shoulders and hands, he was declared an economic migrant by the Home Office and put on a flight to Jamaica after being held for eight days at the Campsfield detention centre in Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth near Heathrow and Gosport, Hampshire.

Dependeq

The artificial word "dependeq" is said having been created by Herbert Weissenbaeck after incidentally reading Jeffrey Robinson's Book "The Manipulators" while waiting for a delayed plane at London Heathrow Airport and studying the roots of other carefully crafted company names like "Sony" or "Compaq".

Dublin Airport

Dublin is also one of only seven airports in the world to serve all six London Airports: Stansted, Luton, Gatwick, Heathrow, London City and Southend.

Flying Matters

In August BAA, a Flying Matters member, applied for the "mother of all injunctions" against the Camp for Climate Action which was to be held near Heathrow airport in August.

Francis Charig

In January 2008 he was a passenger on British Airways Flight 38 that crashed at Heathrow but he escaped unharmed.

Gilbert Licudi

After marrying in 1979, he moved with his wife to England, where he worked for the Russian airline Aeroflot at Heathrow.

Hed Kandi

The Brand partnered with Monarch Airlines to offer flights to various clubbing destinations in Europe such as Ibiza, Cyprus, Tenerife & Barcelona from airports in major British cities such as Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol and London's Gatwick & Heathrow.

Melih Esenbel

The charter flight of the Turkish Airlines carrying eight crew and a delegation of 18 government officials from Ankara via Istanbul and Rome, Italy to London was diverted to Gatwick Airport due to poor visibility at Heathrow.

Michael Manser

Hilton Hotel (originally Sterling Hotel), Heathrow Terminal 4, 1990

Millimeter wave scanner

Claims that images are immediately destroyed were questioned after Indian film star Shahrukh Khan said that his image was circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.

Poyle

Poyle is now home to the Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 which is scheduled to open on 31 August 2011 and the Travelodge UK Heathrow Terminal 5.

Scania N112

The N112 was also built as an airport shuttle bus with Van Hool Alizee coach body and DAF Variomatic transmission, and in this form Capital Coaches of West Drayton ordered 23 on behalf of the British Airports Authority (BAA) at Heathrow in 1987, while Terminus Securities Ltd took one in 1988 for work at Gatwick.

South African Airways Flight 228

South African Airways Flight 228 was a scheduled flight of the Boeing 707-300C Pretoria, registration ZS-EUW, on 20 April 1968 from Johannesburg to Heathrow via Windhoek, Luanda, Las Palmas and Frankfurt.

Terminal 5

London Heathrow Terminal 5, a passenger terminal at London Heathrow Airport, England

London Heathrow Terminal 5 station, a rail station serving London Heathrow Terminal 5

Terminal One

London Heathrow Terminal 1, a passenger terminal at London Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom

Therme Erding

The station Altenerding is nearby with connections to the S2, which runs between Erding and Petershausen via Munich.

UK Power Networks

As well as the 3 distribution arms UK Power Networks also operates UK Power Networks Services Holdings Limited, which develops and maintains electrical networks for clients like London Underground, Heathrow and Stansted airports, Docklands Light Railway and Canary Wharf.

Wekiva Presbyterian Church

Wekiva Presbyterian Church draws its members from Longwood, Altamonte Springs, Apopka, Lake Mary, Heathrow, Maitland, and Orlando.

X26

London Buses route X26, a bus route from Heathrow Airport to West Croydon