It does look sad and lonely. It’s sickening that they keep them by themselves. They are actually very social in their natural environment and should always be kept in at least pairs. I know there’s others around, but they’re not from the same subset so they don’t interact together as well.
When I was a child living in Somerset I remember the double crack sound as they tested Concorde over the Bristol Channel, makes me feel really old.
What do they do with it? It should be in a Museum right?
Such a beautiful aeroplane.
Was working at Aldergrove while Concorde was doing its farewell flight schedule. The pilot said that day was the worst landing he’d ever made in a Concorde, typically as the world was watching.
I want one.
When I did my training at Heathrow our group got to open the gates at the old aircraft crossing. First through was some massive jumbo thing and the wing went over the roof of the control hut, the second one was concord and it was like a tiny tube train with wings miles away.
I’ll never forget the noise of the thing when it took off.
Huh, I always thought the nose on a concord was angled further downwards. Never seen one IRL.
Nearly 50 years old yet still manages to look like some kind of futuristic space plane.
I remember seeing Concorde fly over my head as it came in to land at LBA in the 90s
There’s footage of it on YouTube iirc
Concorde still looks like the future.
Obviously it was wildly controversial – even down to the spelling of its name. Was it going to be ‘Concord’ – the English spelling, or ‘Concorde’ the French? This went on for ages until Tony Benn, then Minister for Technology made a unilateral decision at the roll-out of the first prototype in Toulouse:
>’I have therefore decided to resolve it myself. From now on the British Concorde will also be spelt with an ‘e’. The letter ‘E’ symbolises many things.
>’E’ stands for excellence, for England, for Europe and for Entente – that alliance of sympathy and affection which binds our nations together.’
Apparently an outraged Scottish person wrote to Benn saying that parts of Concorde were built in Scotland, not England. Benn replied ‘E’ also started Ecossé.
You work for HMRC? And they allow you to work from T2? Did the airport lease you some office space?
My dad was one of the Concorde ground engineering crew supervisors at Heathrow. He’d retired by the time of the accident that caused them to be grounded, but I remember he was devastated by it. He loved them so much, both because of their beauty but also because of the sheer inventive engineering they represented. He actually took me and my younger sibs to the airport to have a look at one in the hangar when I was about 7 or 8, which would have been mid 70s (fuck, I’m old!) and I remember being really surprised at how narrow it was inside. We all got to sit in the pilot, first officer, and flight engineer’s seats too which was really cool! We lived under the approach routes for Concorde in and out of Heathrow, although they were always still at cruising height when they went over our house, and whenever we heard them, Dad would always know which exact plane it was. He was a true Concorde nerd, in the best way.
He died about fifteen years ago, and every time I see a Concorde I think of my dad, and how much he loved them, something he passed on to all of us. Miss you, Dad ❤️
I once walked into a lamp post because I was gawping at Concorde
The last I heard about the Heathrow Concorde it was full of old High Life magazines as ballast to stop it blowing away and it’s no longer water tight so the interior is an extremely poor condition.
It’s sad they let it get this bad.
It was kept at Heathrow due to some early plan to make it a feature inside the new Terminal 5 building (gives you an idea how small they actually are in reality). Obviously that didn’t happen and it’s just been left rotting.
Back when Concorde was still flying regularly, I was driving around the external Heathrow perimeter road, when one of those took off right over the car.
They really need to come up with a new supersonic airliner. It’s wrong that it was quicker to travel from London (or Paris) to New York in the 1970s than it is today in the 2020s.
It needs to be in a museum, so sad.
A beautiful aeroplane. A peak of engineering, arguably to it’s detriment
I love the one displayed at Paris CDG, with afterburners lit up.
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Is it the only 1
I thought Concord was in Co Durham?
It does look sad and lonely. It’s sickening that they keep them by themselves. They are actually very social in their natural environment and should always be kept in at least pairs. I know there’s others around, but they’re not from the same subset so they don’t interact together as well.
When I was a child living in Somerset I remember the double crack sound as they tested Concorde over the Bristol Channel, makes me feel really old.
There is one in Barbados.
It was one of only four destinations.
https://barbados.org/concorde.htm
Why not stick it in a museum
What do they do with it? It should be in a Museum right?
Such a beautiful aeroplane.
Was working at Aldergrove while Concorde was doing its farewell flight schedule. The pilot said that day was the worst landing he’d ever made in a Concorde, typically as the world was watching.
I want one.
When I did my training at Heathrow our group got to open the gates at the old aircraft crossing. First through was some massive jumbo thing and the wing went over the roof of the control hut, the second one was concord and it was like a tiny tube train with wings miles away.
I’ll never forget the noise of the thing when it took off.
Huh, I always thought the nose on a concord was angled further downwards. Never seen one IRL.
Nearly 50 years old yet still manages to look like some kind of futuristic space plane.
I remember seeing Concorde fly over my head as it came in to land at LBA in the 90s
There’s footage of it on YouTube iirc
Concorde still looks like the future.
Obviously it was wildly controversial – even down to the spelling of its name. Was it going to be ‘Concord’ – the English spelling, or ‘Concorde’ the French? This went on for ages until Tony Benn, then Minister for Technology made a unilateral decision at the roll-out of the first prototype in Toulouse:
>’I have therefore decided to resolve it myself. From now on the British Concorde will also be spelt with an ‘e’. The letter ‘E’ symbolises many things.
>’E’ stands for excellence, for England, for Europe and for Entente – that alliance of sympathy and affection which binds our nations together.’
Apparently an outraged Scottish person wrote to Benn saying that parts of Concorde were built in Scotland, not England. Benn replied ‘E’ also started Ecossé.
You work for HMRC? And they allow you to work from T2? Did the airport lease you some office space?
My dad was one of the Concorde ground engineering crew supervisors at Heathrow. He’d retired by the time of the accident that caused them to be grounded, but I remember he was devastated by it. He loved them so much, both because of their beauty but also because of the sheer inventive engineering they represented. He actually took me and my younger sibs to the airport to have a look at one in the hangar when I was about 7 or 8, which would have been mid 70s (fuck, I’m old!) and I remember being really surprised at how narrow it was inside. We all got to sit in the pilot, first officer, and flight engineer’s seats too which was really cool! We lived under the approach routes for Concorde in and out of Heathrow, although they were always still at cruising height when they went over our house, and whenever we heard them, Dad would always know which exact plane it was. He was a true Concorde nerd, in the best way.
He died about fifteen years ago, and every time I see a Concorde I think of my dad, and how much he loved them, something he passed on to all of us. Miss you, Dad ❤️
I once walked into a lamp post because I was gawping at Concorde
The last I heard about the Heathrow Concorde it was full of old High Life magazines as ballast to stop it blowing away and it’s no longer water tight so the interior is an extremely poor condition.
It’s sad they let it get this bad.
It was kept at Heathrow due to some early plan to make it a feature inside the new Terminal 5 building (gives you an idea how small they actually are in reality). Obviously that didn’t happen and it’s just been left rotting.
Back when Concorde was still flying regularly, I was driving around the external Heathrow perimeter road, when one of those took off right over the car.
They really need to come up with a new supersonic airliner. It’s wrong that it was quicker to travel from London (or Paris) to New York in the 1970s than it is today in the 2020s.
It needs to be in a museum, so sad.
A beautiful aeroplane. A peak of engineering, arguably to it’s detriment
I love the one displayed at Paris CDG, with afterburners lit up.
My dad worked on the development of it.
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