Posted on 10/17/2017 3:34:26 PM PDT by DFG
She was the last of the iconic supersonic passenger jets to be built and the last to fly. But now, 14 years after her final flight, the public can board Concorde Alpha Foxtrot once again today as she goes on display at a £19million new home in Bristol. The Anglo-French supersonic plane, which could cross the Atlantic in three hours, can be seen at aviation heritage museum Aerospace Bristol, which opens today. The museum promises that visitors will be 'wowed by a dramatic projection show on to the supersonic jet that tells the story of Concorde and what it was like to fly at twice the speed of sound'.
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Surprisingly military looking for a civilian airliner. BTW, if you’re ever in the area the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB is worth a few hours.
So sleek and modern on the outside, but looks like it’s coal powered on the inside.
Too bad there isn’t any replacements. Flying to Europe is a LONG miserable flight. 3 hours sounds pretty good to me.
It’s a shame nothing’s replaced it. We’ll see if Musk can with the BFR in the 2020’s.
They have one over at the Boeing Air and Space Museum. I was surprised how small the passenger seats were.
First flight 2 March 1969
Pretty much was.
Can't expect upgrades to a glass cockpit while in service.
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That is a BOATLOAD of toggle switches!!!
It’s worth a few days, I know most people don’t have the time or level of interest. Sorry, I just love that museum, what a treasure.
............it’s always been my understanding that if you add up total acquisition and maintenance and crash related costs this plane was a huge loss.........................put another way.................it never made a dime of profit..............
When I was stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana I’d drive a van full of patients to the hospital at WPAFB and spend the day at the museum until the folks were ready to go back.
I flew on the Concorde twice. Besides being treated very, very well, I remember that the sky became very dark, almost purple, when we got up to altitude. And there was a speedometer mounted on the bulkhead that showed how fast we were going. It truly was a thrill.
Well,there's always Concordski.I understand it's still making the Vladivostok to Minsk route.
Too bad there isn’t any replacements. Flying to Europe is a LONG miserable flight. 3 hours sounds pretty good to me.
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SpaceX wants to fly their next rocket as a passenger service, point to point, anywhere on Earth. The maximum length of time would be a little over 30 minutes.
It is, but...
I used to work in aircraft instrumentation (F-4s, C-135s) and a lot of those switches are actually pretty mundane-turn on this light or that, adjust the heat, etc.
Try this: Take out the owner's manual on your car and turn to the page that shows the instrument panel and control switches. Then pretend that you don't already know what they are used for and you'll see that it becomes a complicated diagram.
The Wright-Patterson Museum is great. When my wife and I took the kids from Chicago to visit relatives in Baltimore, the museum was a mandatory stop.
I just remember the terrible Concorde crash in France that basically put an end to its service. The ill-fated flight was piloted by a famous French race car driver. And ultimately the fault for the crash was laid at the door of an American airline which had lost a piece of its fuselage or landing gear on the runway just before the Concorde took off. That piece of metal apparently was catapulted into the Concorde’s jet intake while it was taking off and caused one of the Concorde’s engines to catch fire through some sort of fuel leak. Horrible way for so many innocent people to have died.
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