London's Third Airport

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Ever since I was a little boy and saw pictures and books about London Airport grown-ups have been trying to find a replacement.
In the TV show Thunderbirds it is called London International Airport. By September 1966 the emergence of other London Airports at Gatwick and Stansted led to the airport being called Heathrow.
Travellers used to political names for airports (Kennedy, De Gaulle and Brandt) may find this quaint.
This thread is about the might have been.
In the Guardians a TV series from 1971 set "in the near future" a couple discuss taking a flight to Canada from Foulness.
This area east of London was intended before the 1973 Oil Price shock to be the new London airport.
There are not many images online of what it would have looked like.
France in the same period built its futuristic Charles DeGaulle airport while Schiphol and Frankfurt modernised and extended their airports.
Although Heathrow has rebuilt its first three and added two terminals its location in the crowded suburbia of West London is even less ideal than it was in 1965.
As you know my nick UK 75 comes from my fantasy world stuffed with unbuilt projects. Amongst them and home to BOAC's fleet of Concorde and B2707 airliners is London International Airport. It's located at Foulness but unlike Heathrow there is no confusion except with London City airport where BEA has its HS141 Cityjumper fleet and some HS132 Exec Hoppers.
I am off to take my medication and listen to Ms Reeves announcing a third runway