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| Final preparations are taking place at Birmingham Airport - including the installation of temporary runway lighting - for the move of the Runway 33 threshold. When the runway closes on Wednesday night work - which in practical terms means repainting the runway markings - will start to relocate the Runway 33 threshold some 300 metres south adjacent to holding point Echo 1 - and if all goes to plan when the runway reopens after the overnight closure at 0600 on Thursday 6 February 2014 the new approach/glide path to Runway 33 - which will not change again when the physical runway extension is complete - will come into operation |
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| Work on the (basic) runway extension was completed last week - the final surface will go on as part of the on-going runway resurfacing project - and Birmingham Airport now has 3,050 metres of concrete - see markings at the start of the runway - all the way to the 15 threshold |
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| A view back down the new approach lights/guide path to Runway 33 |
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| Work continues apace now on the new parallel taxiway - Taxiway Sierra.... |
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| .... with concrete being laid by a giant GOMACO GHP-2800 slipform paver |
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| Much of the work on the runway is being down at night with specialist lights being stored in a compound adjacent to the new ATC Tower during the day |
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| Wednesday 5 February 2014 |
