The Silence of the Planes

Here's me writing on NewsTilt:

Trace a dumbbell shape lying east-west from Heathrow Airport and you'll find the places most disturbed by the world’s busiest airport’s noise. Under that fallen figure eight are some of London’s most desirable days out. With no planes flying overhead, now is the time to rush to them and see what they would have been like before the jet engine.

The rest is here.

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