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| On the runway with Fred London, ON September 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Like this runway at London International Airport, which like most runways would be quite off limits to the average human during routine operations.
But the rules during an airshow - in this case Airshow London - get set aside so organizers can park aircraft on some of the runways and taxiways for plebes like us to gawk at.
And gawk we did, because that’s what avgeeks do when they’re around planes.
There was something surreal about standing on a runway in the shadows of a plane, the C-5M Galaxy, so large that it seemed to have its own gravity.
But in the moment, as I thought about how to compose the scene, it was the painted lines that literally jumped out at me. I crouched down and felt them, rough and warm, and imagined how well engineered everything here had to be to bear the weight of the massive cargo plane just off to the right. So of course a weirdly distorted geometric photo was called for.
As I write this two days later, the airshow has come to an end, the Galaxy has flown home, the runway has reopened, and humans are justifiably no longer allowed in this forbidden place. I was lucky to have had the fleeting opportunity to stand in the shadows of giants and simply soak it in.
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