{"id":47280,"date":"2022-05-04T01:09:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T23:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47280"},"modified":"2022-06-22T21:40:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:40:51","slug":"a-former-british-airways-flight-training-center-now-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/04\/a-former-british-airways-flight-training-center-now-abandoned\/","title":{"rendered":"A former British Airways flight training center now abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are very curious aeronautical dropouts, as regular readers of this website will already know, but some of them are really strange.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/29\/davis-monthan-afb-a-bus-tour-of-the-worlds-largest-aircraft-graveyard\/\">Davis-Monthan AFB: A bus tour of the world\u2019s largest aircraft graveyard<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/01\/exploring-the-caspian-sea-monster-the-abandoned-lun-ekranoplane-in-dagestan\/\">Exploring the Caspian Sea Monster: the abandoned Lun ekranoplane in Dagestan<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This is the case of the <strong>former British Airways flight training center in Cranebank<\/strong>, next to the great London Heathrow airport. This facility served for years to train the crews of that British airline. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/travel\/13905018\/abandoned-british-airways-training-centre-post-apocalyptic\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this building was abandoned<\/a>,<strong> and with it its flight simulators:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52047361377_8ec1960588_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is what they look like inside today<\/strong>, sadly looted by thieves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52048653539_126205083b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The facilities also include Boeing 747 and Boeing 737 cabin simulators<\/strong>, as you can see in the photo at the top of this post. The 747 simulator is best seen in the following image:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52048455428_fd40018950_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These images are taken from <strong>two videos published last year by the<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCROi_qD5re7PFGoxghAqKsA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Urbandoned<\/a> <strong>YouTube channel<\/strong>, of a British urban explorer who toured the inside of this former flight training facility, now dilapidated, dusty and full of moss:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xxdfdIQgMKk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_pcozSmAcZE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are very curious aeronautical dropouts, as regular readers of this website will already know, but some of them are really strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,16877],"tags":[16522,16523,10678],"class_list":["post-47280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-ruins","tag-british-airways","tag-cranebank","tag-united-kingdom"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 16:17:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}