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The third episode of the series looking behind the scenes at Heathrow Airport, revealing the people, systems and science that keep us flying. Kate Humble is at the heart of the airport in air traff...ic control, and the programme follows all the preparations that ready a long-haul flight for take-off. Dallas Campbell is in Heathrow's paint bay, finding out about the hundreds of markings that must be painstakingly painted on to every plane. And Anita Rani discovers that as you fly off on holiday, you could be sitting above anything from mango to mail, cars to cougars.
The third episode of the series looking behind the scenes at Heathrow Airport, revealing the people, systems and science that keep us flying. Kate Humble is at the heart of the airport in air traff...ic control, and the programme follows all the preparations that ready a long-haul flight for take-off. Dallas Campbell is in Heathrow's paint bay, finding out about the hundreds of markings that must be painstakingly painted on to every plane. And Anita Rani discovers that as you fly off on holiday, you could be sitting above anything from mango to mail, cars to cougars.
| Series: | Airport live |
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| Episode | 3 |
| First transmission date: | 19-06-2013 |
| Published: | 2013 |
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| Duration: | 00:59:00 |
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| Producer: | Sarah Gibbs |
| Presenters: | Dallas Campbell; Anita Rani; Kate Humble |
| Contributors: | Dave Barnes; Dallas Campbell; Sophie Carroll; Dave Marshall; Geanine Reidhall; Graham Cornish; Adrian Dolan; Michael Joseph; Ben Crump; Helen Evans; Hillary Slazer-Doyle; Jillian Khan |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018t3xg OU Website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-airport-live |
| Production number: | FKAC166R |
| Videofinder number: | 83961 |
| Available to public: | no |
