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4 Years Ago...

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  • 24-10-2007 11:12pm
    #1
    Steyr
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    24 Oct. 2007

    Worth a mention..

    Today marks the 4th anniversary of the last commercial passenger flight of Concorde

    Sorely missed in the skies.

    :(


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    Gaz
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    Awesome aircraft but too poxy expensive for the average person


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    Aisling(",)
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    wow



    was expecting something interesting there


    bleh...its a plane.nothing that great!


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    Ruu_Old
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    I was just talking to a few friends about this yesterday, had no idea it was 4 years ago.


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    Steyr
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    Aisling(",) wrote: »


    bleh...its a plane.nothing that great!

    Na nothing at all just the fact you need one to get to Spain or wherever really quick, infact much faster than a boat or to drive...:rolleyes:


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    Dudess
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    And the invasion of Iraq was over four and a half years ago. Bloody scary!!!


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    leninbenjamin
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    and on this exact day 4 years ago I CANT REMEMBER WHAT I WAS DOING!!!! ZOMG!!!!


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    Deliverance
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    Steyr wrote: »
    24 Oct. 2007

    Worth a mention..

    Today marks the 4th anniversary of the last commercial passenger flight of Concorde

    Sorely missed in the skies.

    :(
    Worth a mention alright. I was working on the roof of Dublin Airport years ago and had a birds eye view of concorde taking off. That baby made some noise and it had a crazy ascent angle. I was mesmorized. What a mad idea to make such a powerfull high maintenance craft into a passenger plane! I felt glad to be on the ground.


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    Dave!
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    Why did they stop using it? Cant remember...


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    Trojan911
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    Steyr wrote: »
    24 Oct. 2007 Worth a mention..Today marks the 4th anniversary of the last commercial passenger flight of Concorde Sorely missed in the skies.:(

    I remember it... Conc used to fly over my flat in London on its final approach every day around 5pm. Wheels down. Noisy bugger, but fab to watch. It also flew over my flat one year with the Red Devils alongside... Think it was something to do with the Queen at the time... You could nearly touch it as it passed... Sorely missed....

    TJ911...


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    Black Swan
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    S O N I C B O O M !


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    Mint Sauce
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    Deliverance wrote: »
    Worth a mention alright. I was working on the roof of Dublin Airport years ago and had a birds eye view of concorde taking off. That baby made some noise and it had a crazy ascent angle. I was mesmorized. What a mad idea to make such a powerfull high maintenance craft into a passenger plane! I felt glad to be on the ground.

    what was it doing taking of from dublin, wasn't it based in london gatwick, paris and new york
    Trojan911 wrote: »
    I remember it... Conc used to fly over my flat in London on its final approach every day around 5pm. Wheels down. Noisy bugger, but fab to watch. It also flew over my flat one year with the Red Devils alongside... Think it was something to do with the Queen at the time... You could nearly touch it as it passed... Sorely missed....

    TJ911...

    had the same view my self, we were also under the heathrow path, a plane in the sky every time you looked up, but you didn't even have to look up for concord, you could tell it from the noise, fantasic view, seen it take of a few times from gatwick, the noise was absolutly incredible


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    Orange69
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    Blue_Lagoon wrote: »
    S O N I C B O O M !

    Hydouken.

    That is all.


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    cornbb
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    DaveMcG wrote: »
    Why did they stop using it? Cant remember...

    Cos of the massive crash in Paris.


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    Mint Sauce
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    cornbb wrote: »
    Cos of the massive crash in Paris.

    still continued to fly after the crash, but the operating costs, including the costs for the measures to prevent a similar acident happening again out weighed the money coming in from fares

    was no longer profitable


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    Trojan911
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    irish-stew wrote: »
    was no longer profitable

    Tell Mr R Branson that though..... He wanted to continue them but was denied the licence (I bet he would have made a good job of it too).

    TJ911...


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    Steyr
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    irish-stew wrote: »
    what was it doing taking of from dublin, wasn't it based in london gatwick, paris and new york

    Also a VERY frequent visitor to EINN ( Shannon Intl ) for Pilot Training and crosswind training..


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    Steyr
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    Trojan911 wrote: »
    It also flew over my flat one year with the Red Devils alongside... Think it was something to do with the Queen at the time...

    You mean the RAF Red Arrows, and most likely for The Queens Birthday.


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    TheMilkyPirate
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    Concorde rules..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annkM6z1-FE

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ShTUVIzCI

    *Off Topic* but i had to put this in here..!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfEV_v-RyQc


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    Karoma
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    OP: Do not x-post again.


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    Esel
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    irish-stew wrote:
    what was it doing taking of from dublin
    Presumably because it had previously landed there? :rolleyes:

    Not your ornery onager



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    Dont be at yourself
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    The Airbus A380 had it's maiden commercial flight today. :o


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    Rockee
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    NekkidBibleMan wrote: »
    The Airbus A380 had it's maiden commercial flight today. :o

    Thats right, to be a passenger is out of most of our price range at the moment but wow..what a machine!! Its like a flying city :)


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    seamus
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    irish-stew wrote: »
    still continued to fly after the crash, but the operating costs, including the costs for the measures to prevent a similar acident happening again out weighed the money coming in from fares

    was no longer profitable
    Afair, on examination, there were microfractures appearing along the wings of most of the ones in service and as you mention, the cost of repairing/maintaining the craft, along with a massive explosion in the demand for for low-cost economy seats, made them unfeasible.

    BA had been running them at a loss for a number of years. The crash and the subsequent maintenance issues were just the excuse BA needed to ground them.


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    daveirl
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    robinph
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    daveirl wrote: »
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    ...and surprisingly quite for it's size as well.

    Here is a video I managed to get when they were doing some circles over the parents house in Bristol a few months back:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX-_4RqJeNk

    Edit: and I went and sat in the cockpit of the last Concorde to ever fly around about then as well which was pretty cool.


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    Rhiannon14
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    I remember it was wicked loud, and I was very small-hehe. Once we moved to Vermont the Concord's route wasn't over us.


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    Steyr
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    Rockee wrote: »
    Thats right, to be a passenger is out of most of our price range at the moment but wow..what a machine!! Its like a flying city :)

    Cheapest seat going for the maiden flight was £600.


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    mike65
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    robinph, that airbus vid seems to be in slow motion! :)

    Mike.


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    robinph
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    mike65 wrote: »
    robinph, that airbus vid seems to be in slow motion! :)

    Mike.
    It was coming in to land about a mile or so down the road, but it really flying that slow.


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    azezil
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    Orange69 wrote: »
    Hydouken.

    That is all.

    *snigger*


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