Identify the airport by the control tower

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Captain Halliday

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Surely a true frequent flyer can identify an airport by its control tower.

So my aim in this thread is for members to post photos of control towers. The first member to correctly identify the airport wins fame, glory and AFF bragging rights.

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[FONT=&amp]DFS Tower Frankfurt Airport

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PS> I will be there next July and so will have to take notice then ;)
 
RooFlyer said:
You're right! :oops: Looks like the Germans bought a job-lot.
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Looks like it.

Dusseldorf.
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Reaching a height of 85 metres, the air traffic control tower in Düsseldorf is so far the highest tower of Deutsche Flugsicherung (German Air Navigation Services – DFS). It was constructed as part of an overall design concept for air traffic control towers, on the basis of which two towers have already been implemented in Hannover and Leipzig.
The structure of the tower in Düsseldorf resembles the preceding projects, for example regarding the distribution of loads: whilst one of the two operating rooms mounted at the tower head is suspended from the tower shaft by means of a lightweight steel structure, the second one is supported by a tower pillar rising next to the shaft.

The façade of the octagonal tower coughpit centrically positioned on top of the tower axis is self-supporting and transfers wind loads acting on its surface to the reinforced concrete parapet of the coughpit floor. Consequently, the coughpit pillars do not have to accept any wind loads from the coughpit façade. Two more air traffic control towers in Frankfurt and Berlin, which were constructed at a later date and are with an overall height of 70 respectively 72 metres smaller than the tower in Düsseldorf, demonstrate that they belong to this “family of towers” with a typical design vocabulary.

Read more at: Airport Tower Berlin - Peter und Lochner Ingenieure
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RooFlyer said:
Looks old and coughpy - is it Heathrow?
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No. And I was there last week. Should have snapped it.

I was also at LCY where they don't have a tower. First EU airport to be fully digital/computerised and controlled from a bunker elsewhere. Or so says the sign in the terminal.

Actually the tower itself still exists. Presumably it's just used to store the spare loo paper.
 
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