Concorde

noog

I was watching concordes final flights on the telly ,heard a rumble, looked out my window and it was flying over my head :eek: , I didnt have a cam otherwise I would've taken some .

here are a few caps from the TV


the first two concordes comming in to land


Concorde touching down at heathrow


the two flights from UK taxi-ing around the runways while the new york flight went through customs


the firemen at heathrow giving a watery tribute to one of the planes


concorde being followed by the red arrows at the jubilee last year.


the planes enter the hangar one last time.

If you want to see the rest of the pics click here

I know this isn't exactly irish or anything but please no flames.

BKtje

always wanted to fly on concorde.
O well guess ill have to wait till they invent the faster than light airplane

noog

you'll have to wait about 30 to 40 years to fly on it..

the americans are inventing some supersonic commercial jet which disperses the "sonic boom" over the entire plane so that instead of a boom, there's merely a dull thud

but that's just in the pipe-line, who knows if it'll ever materialise.

Trev

Nice.

Zion

Farewell concorde.

lunacyfoundme

Is Concorde being retired because of that one accident years ago. If so why arent 747s being recalled after all the airplanes that have crashed over the years.

If its because theyre too old why not just build newer ones.

daveg

Is being phased out due to lack of ticket sales since the crash in Paris. Tis a real shame cause before that it had the best record for safety.

I would have love to have flown concord. No chance of flying supersonic now. Unless I spash out the 7K to fly a Mig in Russia.Now that would be cool.

http://www.incredible-adventures.com/migs/

Burago

I presume one or two will be kept for overpriced charters. It's being withdrawn because of economics. After the Paris crash they did a huge overhaul on all Concordes.

noog

there will never be a commercial scheduled flight of concorde ever again. (so says BA boss)

they will be keeping one concorde for flying for special occasions

the rest will go to museums

I flew concorde from jfk to heathrow last February
It was amazing, if cramped.
The plane was less than half full, but the service was something else in the way you were looked after.
The reason I was on the plane was , BA were doing a special offer on their club class to New York at the time, in that you could upgrade on one of the legs to either Concorde or first class for no extra charge.
There was no contest and concorde it was!

The plane itself while refitted did look very dated inside, and only took about 3 hours 15 mins or so before it was over london.
Thats the most remarkable thing that you notice really on it. There is a surge feeling of the speed at take off, but apart from that we didn't notice anything too different.
The edge of the athmosphere thing is noticable for the sky being darker and I could see the waves below which looked a very long way down :eek:
The flight was very shaky too, the drinks were spilling at times which wasn't announced as turbulence, which at any rate there shouldn't have been at around 57,000ft or so.
It did feel like we were on an old plane in that sense.
Something like an hour into the flight the captain was on and already was saying that he was talking to Irish air trafic control.
I've kept my boarding card and the menu as souveneirs.

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elexes

i would of loved to fly on one . it would of been so nice to get across the ocean in 3 hrs . pitty .

Kalina

Great pictures- it's an incredible looking plane!

oneweb

I would have loved to fly Concorde too. Alas, I shall never have that privilige

I planned on going over to Heathrow to see it land. But by the time I had heard a definate date, the return flight would have cost €300

But I did get to watch it live on telly.

Farewell, Concorde.