Month: November 2019

Terminal Silhouettes: HEL

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Terminal silhouette of HEL (Helsinki)

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HEL is my final new terminal this year which was undergoing significant construction – terminals 1 and 2 were both being expanded.

HEL terminal silhouette with the expansions to Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 highlighted

As with FLL and FAY, I couldn’t solely use imagery in order to do this one; I couldn’t find any high-quality imagery for the above expansion points. For references, I also ended up having to use as many photos and videos of the airport as I could find. YouTube videos of people filming out the window while taking off, landing, and taxiing were particularly helpful.

Screenshot of a YouTube video of taxiing at HEL

My favorite part of this terminal is probably the 7-shaped portion on the right; I like that they chose to effectively create a pair of linear terminals, each parallel to their nearest runway.

Terminal Silhouettes: FAY

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Terminal silhouette of FAY (Fayetteville, North Carolina)

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This has apparently been the year where I decided to collect airports under construction – not just FAY, but FLL (and HEL, which I still need to draw). FAY was replacing half of the airside concourse when I first flew through there earlier this year.

I’ve been waiting for aerial image sources showing the new concourse, but with it reaching the end of the year, I had to start looking for other sources, and eventually came across the Fayetteville Airport twitter feed, which had a nice drone video of the terminal construction.

Between that, the outdated imagery, and photos I could find of the project, I was able to piece together enough information to properly draw the terminal.

Terminal Silhouettes: FLL

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Terminal silhouette of FLL (Fort Lauderdale)

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Though I first flew through FLL over half a year ago, I’d put off drawing the terminal because Concourse G (the southernmost concourse) was under construction, and all the reference imagery I could find was still pre-construction.

As it’s approaching the end of the year, where I’ll need the silhouettes of all new airports I’ve visited for my year in travel post, I checked again and was able to find enough material to draw Concourse G. I’ll likely have to update the terminal in the future to fully capture the completed construction, but what I’ve drawn is pretty close to the state of FLL earlier this year.

Other than the reference imagery issues, this was a pretty easy terminal to draw; there were very few curves and all but Concourse E (the northwestern concourse) were at right angles to each other. I liked how the sunshades over the landside roadway looked, so I decided to include them.

Terminal Silhouettes: Updated BOS

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After a visit to BOS this week, I noticed that Terminal B had undergone some construction work, making the western half wider. Comparing my BOS terminal silhouette to reference imagery, I could see that a few other changes had been made to various terminals as well, so I updated the terminals and converted the silhouette to my new color scheme.

Since BOS was one of my earlier terminal silhouettes, I also took the opportunity to clean up the entire drawing (mostly ensuring that parallel and collinear lines were, in fact, parallel and collinear).

Comparison of old and updated BOS terminal silhouettes, showing the portions which were unchanged, added, and deleted

I decided to include the landside terminal walkways this time, as they’re reasonably prominent in satellite imagery, and the terminal looked better with them.