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Who remembers Concorde? I visited it last year, the one at Manchester Airport, and made this video clip. I also have this video clip of a take off from inside a Concorde aircraft.
I like this video of some water condensation effects on a landing aircraft. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-36388441 I've also seen 002 at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton but since it was basically a test version, all the innards are grey performance monitoring consoles. Boeing did at one time consider building the Sonic Cruiser (to travel at just under the speed of sound) but the project was deemed to be too expensive which is a shame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Sonic_Cruiser & https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=so..._AUIBygC&dpr=1 That means today the fastest civilian plane is still the Cessna Citation X: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_Citation_X |
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Actually, seeing as this is not too far away from me, you might be interested in this news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-36388441 I've also seen 002 at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton but since it was basically a test version, all the innards are grey performance monitoring consoles. Boeing did at one time consider building the Sonic Cruiser (to travel at just under the speed of sound) but the project was deemed to be too expensive which is a shame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Sonic_Cruiser & https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=so..._AUIBygC&dpr=1 That means today the fastest civilian plane is still the Cessna Citation X: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_Citation_X I think the days of supersonic travel are long gone, unfortunately. Hard to believe Concorde was basically 1960s technology. |
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Who remembers Concorde?
I also remember the dull thuds of the sonic boom coming up from the English Channel from flights heading into Paris. Some people have since disputed that it was possible but I, and many others, heard it regularly. |
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What is your favourite aircraft to fly on? Mine might be the Boeing 777-300.
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I was speaking to a 23 year old and theyd never heard of concorde.He youtubed it and was amazed. Then asked why we dont use it.
Its already passed out of social awareness. |
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What is your favourite aircraft to fly on? Mine might be the Boeing 777-300.
The favourite has to be that one , closely followed by the vickers super-VC10, and the concorde. Wish I could have gone on concorde again |
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I was speaking to a 23 year old and theyd never heard of concorde.He youtubed it and was amazed. Then asked why we dont use it.
Its already passed out of social awareness. In 2014, there were some scenic flights out of Birmingham (UK) to celebrate the final DC-10 flight. I'm kicking myself for not going on them! |
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What is your favourite aircraft to fly on? Mine might be the Boeing 777-300.
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What is your favourite aircraft to fly on? Mine might be the Boeing 777-300.
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I thought this from Imgur is pretty cool. Someone spent two years creating photos of air traffic around the world.
http://imgur.com/a/NbEOh |
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What is your favourite aircraft to fly on? Mine might be the Boeing 777-300.
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Airlines are an excellent way to import people we don't want, diseases and animals we don't want and are great for the environment (air and noise pollution). What's not to like.
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I was speaking to a 23 year old ignoramus and theyd never heard of concorde.He youtubed it and was amazed. Then asked why we dont use it.
Its already passed out of social awareness. Concorde has only passed out of social awareness among those with no social awareness, and children.
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I think some of you might be interested in this. It's a picture of the flight deck of the 747-8.
http://i.imgur.com/3GjofBa.jpg Any plane spotters here? Any pictures/videos you've made that you'd like to share?
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What is your favourite aircraft to fly on? Mine might be the Boeing 777-300.
>>>> My very first flight was in 1955 in a DC4 to Stockholm while working with SAS and being a little concerned to see while on the ground the wing tips flapping up and down a foot or more, and flames coming from the engine exhausts - which apparently was quite normal. Later my best flight experiences were piloting my own Cessna 172J over the UK France - Channel Isles and Scillies. Whereas flying by Jet to Singapore was 12 hours each way of sheer boredom and suffrage. |
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I think you'll like this. An Airbus A320 take off in strong crosswinds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z95aSjbekak |
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I remember it well. I used to be a regular visitor to the Croydon area and most evenings one would pass over heading into Heathrow about 6pm. BA002 was the flight number, if I recall correctly.
I also remember the dull thuds of the sonic boom coming up from the English Channel from flights heading into Paris. Some people have since disputed that it was possible but I, and many others, heard it regularly. If you were ever on the Northern Perimeter Road at Heathrow around 18.20 to 18.30 when Concorde landed and went into reverse thrust, you could go deaf at the car alarms that were set off in the car parks probably due to the vibration. |
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Concorde has only passed out of social awareness among those with no social awareness, and children.