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At least one at the Intrepid Museum in NYC, I have already visited. I am not sure, if there are even more.
i'll have to go check it out, but yeah, i'd like to hear from some people post in this thread who actually got to experience flying on the Concorde, and describe the experience.
I grew up just down the road from where Concorde was tested.
I used to see it every day and many many times we'd get on our bikes and go to the end of the runway and watch it at close quarters take off or land right in front of us.
I've been behind it when the engines were tested and the ground really did shake.
It is the most beautiful man-made object I have ever seen and I never tired of seeing it right from the day I first saw it on its maiden flight.
A highlight was actually seeing three of them flying in formation one day!
I've been in it, never flown in it though my father did.
I've got lost at the airbase and accidentally ended up in the office where Brian Trubshaw the chief test pilot was working- great stuff for a fourteen year old boy at the time. He kindly directed me to where I should be going.
Happy days.
PS- just found this footage on YouTube. This looks like where we used to go. The official car park and viewing area was down the other end of the airfield and was not a great vantage point. We used to go to a dump down the other end where the view was ten times better;
I grew up just down the road from where Concorde was tested.
I used to see it every day and many many times we'd get on our bikes and go to the end of the runway and watch it at close quarters take off or land right in front of us.
I've been behind it when the engines were tested and the ground really did shake.
It is the most beautiful man-made object I have ever seen and I never tired of seeing it right from the day I first saw it on its maiden flight.
A highlight was actually seeing three of them flying in formation one day!
I've been in it, never flown in it though my father did.
I've got lost at the airbase and accidentally ended up in the office where Brian Trubshaw the chief test pilot was working- great stuff for a fourteen year old boy at the time. He kindly directed me to where I should be going.
Happy days.
Is your Father still alive? if so, ask him what the experience was like
Anybody with Claustrophobia, should not fly that plane ...
That's what he said!
It was a bit cramped but the sense of style and of course getting to your destination quickly made up for it.
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