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  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping, with JCB diggers working in the foreground with Canary Wharf and the Docklands Financial District as the background in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20171103_super sewer_004.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping, with JCB diggers working in the foreground with Canary Wharf and the Docklands Financial District as the background in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20171103_super sewer_003.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping, with JCB diggers working in the foreground with Canary Wharf and the Docklands Financial District as the background in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20171103_super sewer_002.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping, with JCB diggers working in the foreground with Canary Wharf and the Docklands Financial District as the background in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20171103_super sewer_005.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping, with JCB diggers working in the foreground with Canary Wharf and the Docklands Financial District as the background in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20171103_super sewer_001.jpg
  • A construction contractor with Careys Civil Engineering rests after spreading fresh concrete at Elephant & Castle, on 15th July 2019, in London, England.
    bus_journey-01-15-07-2019.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Arizona desert, a complete set of main landing gear undercarriage stands upright amid a field of similar items from airliners at the storage facility at Davis Monthan, Tucson. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or cooling economy. Cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium is worth more than their sum total. Elsewhere, assorted aircraft wrecks sit abandoned in the scrub minus their bellies, legs or wings like dying birds. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their engineering. 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_corbis42-15-08-1998_1.jpg
  • 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.
    aviation_corbis25-23-07-2002_1.jpg
  • 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.
    farnborough_air_show14-14-07-2008_1.jpg
  • A Bahrani aircraft mechanic stands beneath the giant nose wheel assembly of a Being airliner at Bahrain International Airport. Wearing a red headset, he can communicate by cable with the pilots high up in the aircraft's cockpit as a vehicle pushes-back the flying machine onto the taxi-way before starting its engines and departure. It is another hot day in this Gulf State, a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the major hub for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements. It is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. 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_corbis06-21-04-2001_1.jpg
  • 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.
    RB_012-26-03-1997.jpg
  • Workers are craned out in a red cage from deep down as Construction work continues on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames on 18th November 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20191118_super sewer_004.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Blackfriars in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20160810_super sewer_003.jpg
  • Construction site in Rotherhithe underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer close to the City of London on 10th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20200310_super sewer_002.jpg
  • Workers are craned out in a red cage from deep down as Construction work continues on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames on 18th November 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20191118_super sewer_006.jpg
  • Workers are craned out in a red cage from deep down as Construction work continues on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames on 18th November 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20191118_super sewer_005.jpg
  • Workers are craned out in a red cage from deep down as Construction work continues on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames on 18th November 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20191118_super sewer_001.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer alongside Blackfriars Bridge on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20190111_super sewer_002.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer alongside Blackfriars Bridge on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20190111_super sewer_003.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer alongside Blackfriars Bridge on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20190111_super sewer_001.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20180626_super sewer_001.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20180215_super sewer_003.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20180215_super sewer_002.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20180215_super sewer_001.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20171005_super sewer_004.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20171005_super sewer_005.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20171005_super sewer_006.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20171005_super sewer_002.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Blackfriars in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20160810_super sewer_002.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Blackfriars in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20160810_super sewer_001.jpg
  • Construction site in Rotherhithe underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer close to the City of London on 10th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20200310_super sewer_001.jpg
  • Workers are craned out in a red cage from deep down as Construction work continues on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames on 18th November 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20191118_super sewer_003.jpg
  • Workers are craned out in a red cage from deep down as Construction work continues on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames on 18th November 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20191118_super sewer_002.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer alongside Vauxhall Bridge on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20190108_super sewer_003.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer alongside Vauxhall Bridge on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20190108_super sewer_002.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer alongside Vauxhall Bridge on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20190108_super sewer_001.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20180215_super sewer_004.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20171005_super sewer_003.jpg
  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
    20171005_super sewer_001.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_1.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of a Boeing airliner sat the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. 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_graveyard04-16-03-2008-15-0...jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Arizona desert sit the remains of a Boeing airliner and a US Navy fighter jet and engines stacked  at the storage facility at Davis Monthan, Tucson. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners and military aircraft are decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. 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_graveyard07-16-03-2008_1.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of a Boeing 747 airliner at the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. 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_graveyard02-16-03-2008-15-0...jpg
  • 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.
    farnborough_air_show42-14-07-2014_1.jpg
  • 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).
    heathrow_airport1099-11-08-2009_1.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of Boeing 747 airliners at the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. 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_corbis40-15-08-1998_1.jpg
  • In fading afternoon sunlight, after the mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert are the remains of TWA Boeing 747s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliners which sit as if in a take-off queue at the storage facility at Mojave airport, California. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. 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.
    mojave_jets02-15-08-1998.jpg
  • Baggage belonging to a British Airways Concorde crew is lined up beneath their aircraft after arriving at Oshkosh Air Venture, the world’s largest air show in Wisconsin USA. Twelve cases match 12 of Concorde's tiny windows and some of the crowd either take shelter from the sun or walk around the supersonic jet in awe of this engineering marvel. Their baggage is lined up beneath the aircraft during its visit to this huge show in Wisconsin, USA. Close to a million populate the mass fly-in over the week, a pilgrimage worshipping all aspects of flight. The event annually generates $85 million in revenue over a 25 mile radius from Oshkosh. 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_corbis44-27-08-1998_1.jpg
  • Fading, graduated light of the arid Sonoran desert shows the remains of airliners at the storage facility at Mojave, California, their silhouettes forming a line of aviation's by-gone era. Because of age or a cooling economy they are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. 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_corbis41-15-08-1998_1.jpg
  • Like a huge caged animal in a zoo, the cockpit section of a Boeing 747 'jumbo' jet is perceived peering over the barbed-wire perimeter fence at London's Heathrow airport between engineering schedules and more transcontinental flights. Two fluffy cumulus clouds are stacked vertically above the hump of the airliner's nose to form three white blotches of the same tone. This major hub is mainly for British Airways operations, one of the three busiest airports in the world. When asked what is his favourite building of the Century, architect Sir Norman Foster offered the 747 the Jumbo has since carried 2.2 billion people: 40% of the world’s population. 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_corbis14-17-08-1997_1.jpg
  • Like a huge caged animal in a zoo, the cockpit section of a Boeing 747 'jumbo' jet is perceived peering over the barbed-wire perimeter fence at London's Heathrow airport between engineering schedules and more transcontinental flights. Two fluffy cumulus clouds are stacked vertically above the hump of the airliner's nose to form three white blotches of the same tone. This major hub is mainly for British Airways operations, one of the three busiest airports in the world. When asked what is his favourite building of the Century, architect Sir Norman Foster offered the 747 the Jumbo has since carried 2.2 billion people: 40% of the world’s population. 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_corbis14-17-08-1997_1.jpg
  • The giant nosewheel of a Boeing 747-400 airliner is parked on the apron area during its overnight turnround at Heathrow Airport. The engineering of this magnificent piece of aviation design is highlighted by the headlights of an airfield vehicle and the tyres sit firmly on the tarmac at an exact parking spot according to the aircraft's length in order for it to be met by air bridges and service trucks. The nose wheel is used for steering the jet when on the ground. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1092-11-08-2009_1.jpg
  • Standing in their cradles are three members of a National Grid Live-line electricity cable crew, protected in a conductive cage beneath the electricy cables that they maintaining. We see the sagging cables stretching to distant electricity pylons and the three human figures standing like astonauts in their protective cradles. Huge structure of girders and relays are behind them and they wear safety clothing allowing them to work comfortably inside the electrical field at close range with gloved hands. National Grid Electricity Transmission plc owns and operates the National Grid high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales.National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally in the United States.
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  • The statue of civil engineer James Henry Greathead 1844 – 1896, renowned for his work on the London Underground railway stands beneath the tall buildings at Cornhill in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 26th March, 2018, in London, England.
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  • The statue of civil engineer James Henry Greathead 1844 – 1896, renowned for his work on the London Underground railway stands beneath the tall buildings on Cornhill in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 26th March, 2018, in London, England.
    city_finance-29-26-03-2018.jpg
  • 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.
    farnborough_air_show32-14-07-2014_1.jpg
  • 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.
    farnborough_air_show36-14-07-2014_1.jpg
  • Air stewardess and engine turbofan blades of a Qatar Airways Boeing 787 at the Farnborough Air Show, UK. The lady smiles with the large turbo-fans of the new generation engine in the background. Qatar Airways Company Q.C.S.C. operating as Qatar Airways, is the state-owned flag carrier of Qatar. Headquartered in the Qatar Airways Tower in Doha, it operates a hub-and-spoke network, linking over 100 international destinations from its base in Doha, using a fleet of over 100 aircraft.
    qatar_78702-09-07-2012.jpg
  • 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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  • Ahmad Sidiqqi, photographed in the laboratory that he runs,  has worked at Afghan Film for many years. “During the Mujahideen years the building was attacked. I was here when it was shelled, The archives were saved from the Taliban who wanted to burn them. They were hidden in a secret room”<br />
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His boss is Engineer Latif Ahmadi, who explains how, even with the allied occupation of Kabul, filming is still difficult:<br />
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“We were filming a hundred yards from a suicide bombing, one hundred metres from the Ministry of Culture, five people were killed. We actually felt the force of the explosion and heard the shots. It took two minutes for the dust to clear but I told the director, ‘please continue’, because what can we do but carry on?”
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  • Fire fighters attend to the broken fuselage of a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 series jet airliner which lies on an embankment of the M1 motorway at Kegworth, near East Midlands Airport, on 9th January 1989, in Leicestershire, England. On the night of 8th January 1989, flight 92 crashed due to the shutting down of the wrong, malfunctioning engine. Attempting an emergency landing, 47 people died and 74 people, including seven members of the flight crew, sustained serious injuries. The aircrafts tail snapped upright at ninety degrees and here were most of the passenger fatalities. The devastation was hampered by woodland and the fire fighters are attempting to rescue survivors or extract those killed in this air disaster that proved one of Britains worst.
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  • Engineer Ebrahim Faizi age 27, hotel manager and architect with Sultan Mohammad,74, carpenter and handy man. Sultan has been there since he started work over 50 years ago. He remembers a time when the girls use to wear mini skirts in Kabul. Ebrahim has lived at the hotel most of his life during the civil war and for some time during the Taliban era ( he left after a year ). He had to hide at the back of the building during factional fighting in the civil war. The hotel took hits from rockets at least 20 times during one vicious fight.<br />
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“I was here in the civil war but when the Taliban came I left.  Every day a hundred or two hundred rockets were fired, inside and out side the city. In 2001 this city was totally devastated We took at least twenty rockets in this building. we were at the back hiding; it went on for hours. It was just me, mum, uncle and the Mujahideen” .
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  • Engineer Latif Ahmadi, pictured below outside the studios, producer, script writer, cinematographer and General Director of Afghan Film. Latif returned to Kabul in 2002 to recommence his work with Afghan film after the civil war forced its closure and him to leave in 1992 ( bomb damage can be seen in the concrete). He is currently working on a film about Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi, a great Afghan and Islamic scholar from the sixth century. He has three children and lives in Kabul with his wife. He says, <br />
“We were filming a hundred yards from a suicide bombing, one hundred metres from the Ministry of Culture, five people were killed. We actually felt the force of the explosion and heard the shots. It took two minutes for the dust to clear but I told the director, ‘please continue’, because what can we do but carry on."
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  • A United Airlines ramp agent stands in the terminal building of Chicago O'Hare airport before continuing his airside shift, dispatching and communicating with his operational airline colleagues. The man stands with hands in pockets wearing his company issue fluorescent safety jacket with reflective materials important on the ramp, in the company of dangerous vehicles and running aircraft engines. Ensuring the smooth arrival and departures of flights across America and the rest of the world, he is a key member of the airline at its O'Hare hub. 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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  • On a hot night at Bahrain International Airport, a Boeing airliner is about to be pushed backwards and start its engines. Two airport agents wearing traditional Arab dress stand patiently high up on the air bridge (that joins the aircraft fuselage during its turnaround time), several metres above ground level, ensuring no last-minute problems occur before departure. This Gulf State is, a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the major hub for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements. It is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. 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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  • Using ladders and ropes during a rescue operation, Fire Brigade crews enter the floodlit broken air frame of a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 series jet airliner which lies on an embankment of the M1 motorway at Kegworth, near East Midlands Airport in Leicestershire, England. On the night of 8th January 1989, flight 92 crashed due to the shutting down of the wrong, malfunctioning engine. Attempting an emergency landing, 47 people died and 74 people, including seven members of the flight crew, sustained serious injuries. We see the aircraft's tail snapped upright at ninety degrees. Here perished most of the passenger fatalities. The devastation was hampered by woodland and the fire fighters are attempting to rescue survivors or extract those killed in this air disaster that proved one of Btitain's worst.
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  • A policeman and the devastated fuselage of a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 series jet airliner which lies on an embankment of the M1 motorway at Kegworth, near East Midlands Airport in Leicestershire, England. On the night of 8th January 1989, flight 92 crashed due to the shutting down of the wrong, malfunctioning engine. Attempting an emergency landing, 47 people died and 74 people, including seven members of the flight crew, sustained serious injuries. The aircraft's tail snapped upright at ninety degrees and here perished most of the passenger fatalities. The devastation was hampered by woodland and the fire fighters are attempting to rescue survivors or extract those killed in this air disaster that proved one of Britain's worst.
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  • Emergency crews and the devastated fuselage of a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 series jet airliner which lies on an embankment of the M1 motorway at Kegworth, near East Midlands Airport in Leicestershire, England. On the night of 8th January 1989, flight 92 crashed due to the shutting down of the wrong, malfunctioning engine. Attempting an emergency landing, 47 people died and 74 people, including seven members of the flight crew, sustained serious injuries. The aircraft's tail snapped upright at ninety degrees and here perished most of the passenger fatalities. The devastation was hampered by woodland and the fire fighters are attempting to rescue survivors or extract those killed in this air disaster that proved one of Britain's worst.
    kegworth_crash02-08-01-1989.jpg
  • Using ladders and ropes during a rescue operation, a fire fighter sprays foam on to the broken fuselage of a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 series jet airliner which lies on an embankment of the M1 motorway at Kegworth, near East Midlands Airport in Leicestershire, England. On the night of 8th January 1989, flight 92 crashed due to the shutting down of the wrong, malfunctioning engine. Attempting an emergency landing, 47 people died and 74 people, including seven members of the flight crew, sustained serious injuries. The aircraft's tail snapped upright at ninety degrees and here perished most of the passenger fatalities. The devastation was hampered by woodland and the fire fighters are attempting to rescue survivors or extract those killed in this air disaster that proved one of Britain's worst.
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  • Protective sheeting surrounds a tall building project undertaken by the by British construction company McAlpine in Victoria Street, London. Sidelit from the left, the shadows from a rising steps and supporting scaffolding, the company brand is written in large black and red letters, printed on the shrouding covers. Sir Robert McAlpine is a leading UK building and civil engineering company. It carries out engineering and construction for the oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation, nuclear, pharmaceutical, defence, chemical, water and mining industries. The company was founded in 1869 by Sir Robert McAlpine, who was known as "Concrete Bob".
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  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping, with a tug boat working in the foreground and Canary Wharf and the Docklands Financial District as the background on 18th November 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
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  • Woman walking through the Greenwich Foot tunnel which links the Isle of Dogs with Greenwich, East London. It was designed by civil engineer Sir Alexander Binnie and opened in 1902.
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  • The statue of civil engineer James Henry Greathead (1844 – 1896), renowned for his work on the London Underground railway beneath the flags of the Russian Federation and Russian investment Bank VTB Capital hang over banks and other financial institutions in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 26th March, 2018, in London, England. VTB Capital operates in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sofia, New York, Zug and Frankfurt, with headquarters in Moscow.
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  • Dumped 1970s Ford Cortina found in the drained model boating pond on Hampstead Heath in London, United Kingdom. Civil engineers began draining the pond in August 2015 as part of the City of London’s £23million pond dams project.
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  • A man walking passed the East beach café in Littlehampton with boxes of deliveries.<br />
The East Beach Cafe designed by Thomas Heatherwick, sits right on the beach in Littlehampton, West Sussex. It serves food every day, all year round. It has 60 seats inside, all with a great view of the sea, and 80 seats on decking outside for our take-away kiosk for those who prefer to eat on the beach.<br />
The unusual design took shape after Jane Wood and her husband, Peter Murray, collaborated with architect . The building was designed via 3D computer modelling techniques with the assistance of civil engineers.
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  • Woman walking through the Greenwich Foot tunnel which links the Isle of Dogs with Greenwich, East London. It was designed by civil engineer Sir Alexander Binnie and opened in 1902.
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  • Wide view of the canoe slalom at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Lee Valley White Water Centre is located 30 kilometres north of the Olympic Park, on the edge of the 1,000-acre River Lee Country Park – part of the Lee Valley Regional Park. The centre has two separate courses: a 300 metre Olympic-standard competition course with a 5.5m descent, and a 160m intermediate/training course with a 1.6m descent. Whitewater course specialists Whitewater Parks International, working with civil and structural engineers Cundall, are the designers of the whitewater courses.
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