@heathrowairport: Annual tower maintenance, underway 🚧 Standing at 87m, Heathrow’s control tower is engineered to allow the cab to descend once a year for cleaning and inspection, a process built into the original design to minimise disruption to operations. The system uses a precision motorised vertical drive, with guided rails and stabilised cabling to ensure a smooth, controlled movement throughout the descent, even in variable weather conditions. By bringing the cab down to ground level, teams can carry out detailed cleaning, structural checks, and visibility assessments without the need for external access systems or temporary works. Air traffic controllers remain fully operational during the process, so from their perspective it’s business as usual, just with a slightly more down to earth view than usual. If you’ve read this far and didn’t raise any questions, we’ve done our job properly, April Fools. #heathrow #airport #AprilFools

ccnflixxrr :

Since when could it do that…

THE flight sim guy :

Oh that’s cool wait, it’s the first of April

Owen :

Who’s monitoring the flights in the time being

tho_mas1353 :

you can move it up and down? 😳

Stuart aviation ✈︎ G-SAJK :

purple.rabbit :

Dammit you got me

p_a_t_r_i_c_k_b :

Are air traffic control April fools jokes the right approach right now? I think not.

name :

how do you do this

Mami Amir :

the 777’s GE90 in the distance

LewisMeechan :

I fell for this because I saw it after April 1st

tui Roblox :

May as well say this is the Boeing 797

Bus Driver :

I wonder what day it is today 👀😎 😏

8akitkat :

Is this Ai?

Reg :

Heathrow can I pls have an a320 I have about 60+ hours on msfs pls?!?!?!

Sadik Baba :

April fool?

AndyL1979 :

So what you’re saying, is that Air Traffic Control has gone down?

ibadcheema0 :

Fully fell for it 😅

John :

Waheeda BeeP :

You got me.

Taylor_6438 :

the way I believed it 💔

Penny 💙 🧷 :

Very well done you got both me and my partner

DaBlue :

chicken :

Logan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 :

Hmm is it just zooming in?

maddison 🎀 :

ai :(