Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
My uni lectures had to pause when she flew overhead!
Concorde supersonic aeroplane, 1976-2003
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dessiato
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I once gave a workmate a lift home. She lived close to Heathrow and under the flight path. How she tolerated the noise from Concorde is beyond me. In her house everything stopped when Concorde flew over.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
A380s are pretty impressive when they fly over you at low level but yeah, Concorde was the business. As small kids we used to stop and point at it and shout CONCOOOOOORDE! Like we were demented, and in the 70s and 80s we’d see one pretty much every day.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yep, used to pass over Croydon every evening at 5 to 6pm and I often then realised it was time to start cooking tea!
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
The morning flights to New York used to coincide with our morning school breaks so we were often in the playground when it went out. We thought it was very special.
It was known as “The Concorde” and it was actually quite a few years before I found out there were more than one of them.
It was known as “The Concorde” and it was actually quite a few years before I found out there were more than one of them.
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
I once was in the control tower whilst Concorde came in. We were doing an upgrade of Ram to ensure all networked workstations had 512MB RAM and we deliberately left those until 5pm.
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Plastic Paddy
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I stopped in the Best Western on Bath Road near Heathrow for a week once (though it wasn't called that then). It's roughly about level with the end of the runway where the planes start their takeoff run. The noise when Concorde was getting ready to go was in a whole different league from that of any other aircraft.
dessiato
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When I first was living in Weybridge it was possible to drive very close to the runway. That was always a fun thing to do when aircraft were taking off.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
This: Google Maps used to be a through road down to Hatton Cross, they used to drag aircraft from the East Base to the main part of the airport, I drove over every working day for around 6 years, at least once a week it seemed they would drag a Concorde across, when you saw the lights start to flash you never minded stopping...
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Public road? None of airport security's business?I can remember stopping on the Heathrow ring road as the evening New York Concorde came in. It never seemed so stable slowing down for landing with its snoot droopedWell worth risking the ire of the Heathrow security forces !!
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Oh, OK, I bet if you got out of your car toting an RPG they might take an interest
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Presuming that you weren't?Oh, OK, I bet if you got out of your car toting an RPG they might take an interest
weltweit
Well-Known Member
No but I stopped at the side and got out for a better view. There were a few of us.
Not my picture
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
It's only in the last 20-30 years that airport security has become serious. As teenagers we used to play cricket in Stanwell, on a ground that is now under Terminal 4. Every now and then a ball got knocked over the flimsy chain link fence into the airport and we just climbed over to get it back.
T & P
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I was once on a plane on the LHR taxiway, waiting our turn to depart, and Concorde was a couple of planes ahead of us. When she started the takeoff run, the noise we felt even inside our pressurised plane was awesome, as was seeing the afterburners glow in the fading light
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I was at Farnborough when it was taking off from there, once. It was louder than the Harrier, and that was LOUD.
I remember it well. Several bus routes went down that road, and being on the top deck watching the aircraft being towed across the road was great.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Nice grab
skyscraper101
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This is a pretty good doc too.
T & P
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Yes, as you can see it's totally un-manned, so anyone could just slip inside the airport perimeter, hi-vis jacket and you're all set.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Filton airfield in a Bristol (birthplace of Concorde) had a railway level crossing between the hangars and runway. Can’t find a picture of concorde crossing it, possible it used hangars elsewhere on the site.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
I has floweded it. I was at a party in Manchester Airport and they left the keys in it. Me and a friend slipped security and just went for it.
Took me ages to figure out where the clutch was.
Getting it out of the garage was the hardest bit because I was a bit bevved up but once you're in the air you just press a couple of buttons and it does it all itself. I went for a poo in the Queens loo as well and flushed it out over Old Trafford.
As you can see my reversing it back in was blob on.
Took me ages to figure out where the clutch was.
Getting it out of the garage was the hardest bit because I was a bit bevved up but once you're in the air you just press a couple of buttons and it does it all itself. I went for a poo in the Queens loo as well and flushed it out over Old Trafford.
As you can see my reversing it back in was blob on.
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