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#243220 1-Dec-2018 17:58

I happened across this amazing photo today on CNN. I hadn't seen it before.

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#2137848 1-Dec-2018 18:03

The most beautiful passenger jet ever. Amazing considering it was designed in the 60s.

I worked in a pub in the UK in the 80's. Most days around 2pm I'd pop outside to watch the Concorde overhead enroute to Heathrow.

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#2137859 1-Dec-2018 18:46

She used to fly over my (old) house. A unique sound; wonderful to watch (and listen to) each time.

The photo looks like the final concord flight (Heathrow to Bristol).

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#2137869 1-Dec-2018 18:56

Yep. Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol.

Grew up in Bristol not too far from Filton where they made them. Used to hear the odd sonic boom in my youth!

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#2137870 1-Dec-2018 19:00

I worked on a farm years ago in Surrey, which I was told was where planes were put in a holding pattern before landing at Heathrow or Gatwick.

You could always tell which plane was the Concorde without having to look up.

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#2137874 1-Dec-2018 19:09

Early concept planning started in the 50's. Apparently British design work was slipped to the French in the hope it would help the UK get into the Common Market.

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#2137879 1-Dec-2018 19:23

As noted above, that's Clifton suspension bridge, opened in 1864. Used to live just down the road.

I've a feeling that image was taken on the final flight when she flew round Bristol to say goodbye.

A great loss, especially before I got a chance to fly on her!

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#2137885 1-Dec-2018 19:46

I wasn't a commercial high flyer with only four airlines that used it, British Airways, Air France, Braniff International and Singapore Airlines.
It was an awesome looking beast but certainly was not environmental friendly.

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#2137887 1-Dec-2018 19:50

If that's the final flight of the one that's at Filton, I was lucky enough to see it. I was having lunch at home in Corsham having decided not to take the day off to go and watch it land, and luckily enough it did an orbit over my town at about 1500ft AGL. Such an amazing aircraft

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#2137930 1-Dec-2018 21:27

Classic and iconic designs from the past - Spitfire, E Type, Concorde .....

Feel free to add others if they’re really in this company - I don’t think this is too far OT.

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#2137946 1-Dec-2018 21:55

eracode: Classic and iconic designs from the past - Spitfire, E Type, Concorde .....

Feel free to add others if they’re really in this company - I don’t think this is too far OT.

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#2137951 1-Dec-2018 22:30

Magnificent aircraft....

When a Concord first visited Christchurch, I was driving my Morry Oxford down a country road and I thought the engine was pooing itself.... until I saw the Concord just overhead... what a surprise!....

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#2137973 1-Dec-2018 23:53

The man who used to live opposite my parents went on it.

He had a job as a very senior accountant/director type for the European arm of a US firm. There was some sort of deal going down that required his appearance in person in NYC to sign some very important papers etc and attend a very important meeting.

Having already cancelled several trips, he was going away with the family and refused to cancel another so the company said they would figure out something.

On the day before he was going away, he was collected by car at home, whisked to Heathrow (about an hour), flew to NY on the morning flight, signed papers and had the meeting at JFK then returned same day on the pm flight and was home again to have supper.

We should have more aircraft like that, not less.

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#2137984 2-Dec-2018 07:16

My parents managed to get on a scenic flight before they finally stopped flying them.

A picture of them onboard has pride of place in their Bristol home.

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#2138034 2-Dec-2018 09:31

MikeB4:

eracode: Classic and iconic designs from the past - Spitfire, E Type, Concorde .....

Feel free to add others if they’re really in this company - I don’t think this is too far OT.

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#2138100 2-Dec-2018 13:03

Slightly OT but a very old friend of mine's father flew Mosquitoes in the war.
He's still alive and a charming old man.

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