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Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 10961883)
There's one at Ringway as well, isn't there? Or at least there used to be - I seem to remember seeing one on my way back from a trip out here, by the runway when we were coming in to land, or maybe when we were taxiing to the gate.
I might also be going mental, of course. |
Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
(Post 10961890)
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Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by Steve_
(Post 10961600)
Also it was quite novel arriving before you left as the time difference was five hours but the flight time was only three hours.
But then, that is a factor of the Dateline, not speed. |
Re: Concorde
I always did think it was kind of neat to spend a day and a half going to Bangkok, but only half a day coming back.
Regards, JEff
Originally Posted by S Folinsky
(Post 10961956)
Eastbound Trans Pacific flights arrive before leaving -- after flying through the night.
But then, that is a factor of the Dateline, not speed. |
Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by jeffreyhy
(Post 10961985)
I always did think it was kind of neat to spend a day and a half going to Bangkok, but only half a day coming back.
Regards, JEff [BTW, this was usually L.A.-Seoul]. [One trip to HoChihMin City via Taipei left LA at Midnight -- that was totally discombobulating]. |
Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by civilservant
(Post 10961015)
Yesterday was 10 years since her retirement by BA. I never had the privilege to fly on her - something which, along with watching a Space Shuttle launch at Canaveral, I think I will always regret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxy9KcZ0iWk Did anyone here ever get the chance? What was it like? http://www.museumofflight.org/concorde |
Re: Concorde
One is dumped at Filton. Been there years, the runway has since been removed. You can see it on google street view from here:
51.521094,-2.589730 (look south) :frown: |
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SCG (Save Concorde Group) attempted to raise the funds to have it removed from Filton beforehand. They failed.
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I was working in Lewisham the day they retired them, we all went out onto the roof and watched them fly over on their way to LHR.
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I flew on the French one. From Doncaster to Paris - Charles de Gaulle would you believe.
Still have all the stuff you got. Leather pouch, postcard of Concorde. Don't know why I kept it. I'm a big guy and didn't find it too cramped. No more so than flying first class in the nose of a BA 747 which is my prefered mode of transatlantic travel these days. :thumbsup: |
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I made the trip in Fed 2003. A terrific experience; I made a wee website to remember the experience by:
www.BA001.com |
Re: Concorde
There is an excellent branch of the Imperial War Museum for aircraft at Duxford (adjacent to the M11 motorway between Stansted airport and the city of Cambridge). We used to take our children when they were little.
They have one of the prototypes of Concorde and you can go inside it. http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford There is also the American Air Museum at Duxford: http://www.iwm.org.uk/exhibitions/iw...can-air-museum It's a great day out if you are visiting the Cambridge area :cool: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractio...e_England.html |
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My son who works at Airbus in Filton, Bristol has his office window overlooking the Concord there
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I used to be stationed at Brize Norton worked very close to the runway. When it was in development Concorde would come in constantly doing circuits and bumps. It was an amazing site. I'm still not sure if a Vulcan wasn't noisier though!
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Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by civilservant
(Post 10961015)
Yesterday was 10 years since her retirement by BA. I never had the privilege to fly on her - something which, along with watching a Space Shuttle launch at Canaveral, I think I will always regret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxy9KcZ0iWk Did anyone here ever get the chance? What was it like? |
Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by Bob
(Post 10961633)
When at uni, it had a rotating landing path and for about a week every so often, it would fly over the uni and shake the crap out of the place.
Was quite nice to watch though. Oh and apparently because of it, we also didn't have mobile phone reception on campus because it had some sort of landing beacon on one of the building roofs, so you could only get reception on the bog in a particular corner building :/ |
Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by Sarah
(Post 10968253)
I lived just outside of Hounslow (which is basically next to Heathrow) in London when I was at Uni. Had the privilege of having Concorde go over our student flat twice a day. It would make the dishes in the kitchen rattle as it went over. If I was outside I would always watch it land, it reminded me of a bird more than a plane, it descended wheels first rather than nose first like other planes.
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Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 10968271)
Planes rarely descend nose first (I think they used to approach nose first at the old HK airport), and they certainly don't land nose first. One tried that at NY La Guardia earlier this year, if I remember correctly, and it did not end well (the nose wheel collapsed). :ohmy:
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I remember seeing an Air France Concorde carrying the French President leaving Muscat. I was working with some Dutch blokes at the time, and I remember one of them saying " Look at that flash bastard go! He must have left his oven on..." Not quite sure what he meant, but it stuck with me. That was in 1992, and I remember also the bloody racket it made! Loud but lovely!
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Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by Sarah
(Post 10968257)
IIRC you went to Brunel too didn't you?
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Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by Bob
(Post 10970117)
Yup, out in Runneymede :)
being converted into flats.... |
Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by steveq
(Post 10971195)
now gone. All at Uxbridge now. We were down there a few weeks back for a funeral, and went to see the RAF memorial afterwards.
being converted into flats.... Security is pretty slack, friends when bunny hoping a while back and only saw one chap. Shame it never got sold to Royal Holloway. Don't know how they got around the need to keep it in educational uses charter jobby though. |
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My husband flew on Concorde
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...contuned! Sorry i hit post by mistake
He flew on it once. He is 6'3". It was fast but small. However he sat next to Kate Moss so he was delighted by the experience. He kept the branded pen and writing paper they gave him! |
Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by NewJerseyGirl
(Post 10972388)
...contuned! Sorry i hit post by mistake
He flew on it once. He is 6'3". It was fast but small. However he sat next to Kate Moss so he was delighted by the experience. He kept the branded pen and writing paper they gave him! I once landed at Heathrow (before the days of the air bridge!) and had to wait to cross the tarmac once disembarked, because Concorde was taking off. I fair felt the ground tremble beneath my feet! :thumbsup: Loved that aircraft - would have loved a trip on it, I'm only 5ft 5ins JerseyGirl, I think it would have been more comfortable for me. My husband is 6ft 5ins... he struggles with regular commercial craft!:eek: |
Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by NewJerseyGirl
(Post 10972388)
He kept the branded pen and writing paper they gave him!
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...psc326ad02.jpg |
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So....mark..... how much do you want for the pen? :p
I'm an aviation nut - I collect things, especially Concorde things :D |
Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by civilservant
(Post 10972922)
So....mark..... how much do you want for the pen? :p
I'm an aviation nut - I collect things, especially Concorde things :D |
Re: Concorde
lol, eBay is your friend :)
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Re: Concorde
Originally Posted by civilservant
(Post 10972922)
So....mark..... how much do you want for the pen? :p
I'm an aviation nut - I collect things, especially Concorde things :D |
Re: Concorde
Oh they are now. I don't want to sell, I want to add to my collection :D
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