just a preview of what it will be like when Singapore gets its very own eye next year, which is supposedly bigger than this!!
View of Big Ben and Parliament House from the Eye.
Top of the Eye.
Teachers waiting patiently in line.
Space capsules in orbit.
Interesting piece of engineering. Defintely lots of physics going on in this thing.
The view from afar.
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Lovely pics!
Greets from belgium
Interesting facts about London Eye:
It took seven years and the skills of hundreds of people from five countries to make the London Eye a reality.
The London Eye welcomes an average of 3.5 million customers every year. You would need 6,680 fully booked British Airways Boeing 747-400 jumbo jets to move that number of fliers!
The London Eye can carry 800 passengers per revolution - equivalent to 11 London red doubled-decker buses.
Each of the 32 capsules weighs 10 tonnes. To put that figure into perspective, it's the same weight as 1,052,631 pound coins or 5 Limousine London vehicles!
The total weight of the wheel and capsules is 2,100 tonnes - or as much as 1,272 London black cabs!
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