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22-11-2017, 11:18 AM
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I didn't realise that so many were made (20).
Would have been more if the USA hadn't kiboshed it.
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22-11-2017, 11:20 AM
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Would have been more if the USA hadn't kiboshed it.
Yes, what a shame. Maybe more of us would have been able to experience it.
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Closest I got was having a look round the one at Duxford.
So did I, it was the test version if I remember, got some photos of the inside somewhere>
i actually did a wee part of it by helping make fuel pump induction minature motors for it.
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22-11-2017, 11:39 AM
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Nose works now on the Duxford one. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-29755140
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22-11-2017, 01:06 PM
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Same here, I went to Duxford too.
Me too.

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22-11-2017, 02:16 PM
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Scotland has one of the Concords at East Fortune, very near a friend's house. I see it from a distance if I'm down that way and going to the big outdoor Sunday Market.. Not that I've been for a while now..

https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museu...de-experience/
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22-11-2017, 03:55 PM
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Engineering excellence.

Once the aircraft had gone supersonic it heated up so much it stretched..so much that the flight engineer's work desk ended up 6" from the bulkhead which it had been flush with.
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22-11-2017, 05:06 PM
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Was lucky enough to fly Edinburgh to London on Concorde a lot of years ago. It had brought a lot of American golfers across for the Open in Scotland then flew down to London.

Even better there was an air show on at RAF Leuchars that day and Concorde was invited to do a fly past which was very low and pretty exciting. Then flew out over the ocean to go supersonic. Think it cost us about £100 return flights to London and on each seat was a model Concorde to take home.
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22-11-2017, 05:22 PM
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Was lucky enough to fly Edinburgh to London on Concorde a lot of years ago. It had brought a lot of American golfers across for the Open in Scotland then flew down to London.

Even better there was an air show on at RAF Leuchars that day and Concorde was invited to do a fly past which was very low and pretty exciting. Then flew out over the ocean to go supersonic. Think it cost us about £100 return flights to London and on each seat was a model Concorde to take home.
On our trips, we had coaches to collect from whichever airport. How did you get back from London? Similar?
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22-11-2017, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Purwell ->
Closest I got was having a look round the one at Duxford.
Originally Posted by Eliza ->
I went on it at Duxford , very very narrow inside , I thought i could never sit for hours in it .,The windows seemed tiny looking out too.

A small airfield put on a village show each year and one year they got Concorde to fly past ,it circled where i lived and it was so low it looked huge compared to other aircrafts .
Originally Posted by Mups ->
Same here, I went to Duxford too.
I went in this one. In those days it stood on the tarmac, seems they have moved it inside now. I remember thinking how narrow & in this one, the one I went on, 002, not many seats but a lot of instrumentation as it was a prototype.

http://www.fleetairarm.com/aviation-...-concorde.aspx


We used to hear it's bang & used to look up & say, that's Concorde.
 
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