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[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7991214.stm ]First test flight anniversary[/url]


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 10:38 am
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They had 90s corporate logos?


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 10:40 am
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I miss the sonic boom, 21.10 every night as it went out over the Atlantic coast.


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 10:41 am
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Happy birthday and RIP Concorde! Fantastic aeroplane.


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 10:52 am
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My Dad was in the RAF and somehow met the test pilot for that first flight - I got a signed photo of Concorde from him. Hung proudly on my bedroom wall for years - no idea what happened to it 🙁


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 11:35 am
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Vive la France!


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 12:56 pm
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She was a beut of a plane.

I always though as a kid we'd be flying around the world on one as a regular plane.

Sadly the costs were too high.

Is it still in Bristol on display?


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 2:25 pm
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It's still a cool plane

- unless you're a load of German tourists (aaargh, sorry about that)


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 2:44 pm
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Is the test plane still at Duxford......?


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 2:55 pm
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There is one on display at Manchester Airport


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 3:00 pm
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There is one at Brooklands, being rebuilt, very small indeed


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 3:10 pm
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For me a classic british icon. Beautiful, extremely expensive, totally impractical.


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 3:33 pm
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..amd 42 years ago today, it's chubby big cousin came out to play for the first time [img] [/img]


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 3:50 pm
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We have not really move on then in the last 40 years.


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 3:57 pm
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cripes. I'm older than concord and I'm still going strong.


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 3:58 pm
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We have not really move on then in the last 40 years.

Possibly the only area of technological evolution where we seem to be going backwards!


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 4:08 pm
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Whiskey Charlie - G-BOAC is housed at Manchester airport. I remember it's last fight coming out over Stockport, brought a tear to my eye.
In the last few months she's had a new house built to keep out the bad Manc weather.
Bit costly to view with the tour guide, but I went in the one at Duxford, Cambridge.
As a child we were driving on our annual holiday to Cornwall and saw her taking of on one of her first test flights, memory will always stay with me.


 
Posted : 09/04/2009 4:11 pm