Myrtle Avenue

B-LIC - Cathay Pacific Cargo by Catarina Madureira via Flickr/Creative Commons
B-LIC - Cathay Pacific Cargo by Catarina Madureira via Flickr/Creative Commons

Just off the end of 27L, this is one of the best places to capture planes arriving at Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) when it is running on "westerly" operations (i.e. landing to the west).

It is a small cul-de-sac with no parking available and no real facilities to speak of. But the plane views are stellar.

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