4 Years Ago...

Steyr

24 Oct. 2007

Worth a mention..

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

Sorely missed in the skies.

Gaz

Awesome aircraft but too poxy expensive for the average person

Aisling(",)

wow



was expecting something interesting there


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

Ruu_Old

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

Steyr

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:

Dudess

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

leninbenjamin

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

Deliverance

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.

Dave!

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

Trojan911

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...

Black Swan

S O N I C B O O M !

Mint Sauce

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

Orange69

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

S O N I C B O O M !

Hydouken.

That is all.

cornbb

DaveMcG wrote: »

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

Cos of the massive crash in Paris.

Mint Sauce

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

Trojan911

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...

Steyr

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..

Steyr

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.

TheMilkyPirate

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

Karoma

OP: Do not x-post again.

Esel

irish-stew wrote:

what was it doing taking of from dublin

Presumably because it had previously landed there? :rolleyes:

Dont be at yourself

The Airbus A380 had it's maiden commercial flight today.

Rockee

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

The Airbus A380 had it's maiden commercial flight today.

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

seamus

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.

daveirl

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robinph

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.

Rhiannon14

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.

Steyr

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.

mike65

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

Mike.

robinph

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.

azezil

Orange69 wrote: »

Hydouken.

That is all.

*snigger*

Third_Echelon

At the USS Interpid Museum in New York, there is one of the British Airways Concordes there... Lucky enough to get on to see it just before the museum closed for an upgrade for a couple of years...

The cabin was nice enough, but the cockpit looked archaic. The technology was well old and I'm sure maintenance of it was a huge cost factor.

Fantastic planes though...

The Don

seamus wrote: »

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.

I saw a documentary on them a few months ago. There had been a number of incidents prior to that. They involved the wheels exploding (due to hitting an object on the runway at those high speeds) and pieces of the wheel puncturing the underlining of the fuel containers on the wing. They made the lining thicker after the first incident but it happened again after. But due to needs to keep the aricraft light they couldn't reinforce it too much.

There were other factors that I can't remember now aswell.

Steyr

Third_Echelon wrote: »

At the USS Interpid Museum in New York, there is one of the British Airways Concordes there...

She isnt on Intrepid herself she is located on a Barge alongside her, USS Intrepid is no longer in NY she has been moved for a major overhaul and will be back in 08 and will formally open on Veterans Day 2008.

robinph

On the right of this picture you'll see the hat of the last Concorde pilot that is now permanently stuck into the control panel. When Concorde went supersonic the fuselage would expand so there was then a gap of several inches at the side of that panel, once it cooled down again that gap completely disappeared so he's never getting his hat back again.

Steyr

robinph wrote: »

On the right of this picture you'll see the hat of the last Concorde pilot that is now permanently stuck into the control panel. When Concorde went supersonic the fuselage would expand so there was then a gap of several inches at the side of that panel, once it cooled down again that gap completely disappeared so he's never getting his hat back again.

Imagine the blistering speed at the top of the Pitot tube on the nose...:eek:

Hal1

Built in the seventies and it would still be the fastest commercial passenger plane (Mach 2) if it was in the skies today....

Third_Echelon

Steyr wrote: »

She isnt on Intrepid herself she is located on a Barge alongside her, USS Intrepid is no longer in NY she has been moved for a major overhaul and will be back in 08 and will formally open on Veterans Day 2008.

If you read my next sentence I had mentioned that alright

seamus

Hal1 wrote: »

Built in the seventies and it would still be the fastest commercial passenger plane (Mach 2) if it was in the skies today....

Not to mention the passenger cost. Could you imagine in these days of fuel prices, the fuel surcharge if AL were operating a DUB-JFK route by concorde?

Third_Echelon

seamus wrote: »

Not to mention the passenger cost. Could you imagine in these days of fuel prices, the fuel surcharge if AL were operating a DUB-JFK route by concorde?

Yeah, same price as the fare I'd Imagine...

Fuel and general high costs was a big factor in Concorde's days being numbered I'd say. At the end BA and AF were just looking for excuses to end the service...