FH Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Time: 15.45ish Place: In the sky Sobs ... ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️Concorde's Last commercial flight ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ Edited by - fullharness on 24 Oct 2003 10:22:13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Elizabeth Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Despite the fact that Concorde makes a LOT of noise over our house .... I will still miss 'er ☹️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevSull Too Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Just been talking about it in the office. We'll be getting on the roof of the office to watch it for the last time. Sad day. 😬You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tam Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 It is indeed ☹️ I will be heaading to the office cafe at 1540 hours to watch on TV ☹️ (too far from here, although Mr C might well see it as it swoops down over his office) They are expecting huge number to gather at LHR so if you're planning to travel any where near the M4 / M25 this pm, don't do it ❗ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boonie Hound Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Very sad - as someone said last night one of the fist times engineering has taken a step backwards ☹️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Elizabeth Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Sadly beauty and engineering brilliance have no part in making money ☹️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Elizabeth Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Hmmm, I wondered about the traffic chaos ... but hopefully I am leaving for Silverstone as soon as I can find my wooly hat and gloves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby dooby doo Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ (and a fair bit of as well) HOOPY R706KGU Hoopylight R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-B Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 a friend of ours is a check in person at heathrow, and is leaving NOW for her job to start 1400 due to the complete and utter chaos already well in effect there. BBC-2 is to carry the takeoff from JFK at 1200ish go here to watch live BBC coverage Concorde's Final Bow Fri 24 Oct, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm 60mins Jon Sopel presents live coverage from London and New York as Concorde makes its final flight. With Reporters in place at Heathrow's control tower, in the maintenance area, and along the airport's perimeter to capture the images and the mood as an era of supersonic flight draws to a close. Steve B Big Black Beast^3 SV VHPD Join us on the USA 2005 tour......HERE Edited by - Steve-B on 24 Oct 2003 11:59:40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moomin Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 I totally agree that it is sad, but the sad thing is that (at present) it appears Concorde is not going to be kept flying. Mothballing them to static displays in museums is wrong. I am with Mr Branson, who has given up wanting to fly them commercially, but wants them to go back to Filton and be kept flying for airshows etc. This makes sense, letting them rot does not. I am not all that sad that its commercial life is ending - the arguments I am aware of for this appear fairly justified. Ecologically and financially it doesn't make alot of sense to keep flying for low passenger numbers. Sure I'd like to see it keep going, but if it's under-utilised, it's under-utilised, simple economic supply and demand. Don't get me wrong. I'd love to have a go, but that's not going to happen. However I would be happy enough just to be able to watch it come and go, make noise, cruise around, etc. Maybe from a small field just off the A505 near the Imperial War Museum? Imagine that... moomin www.megabird.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted October 24, 2003 Author Share Posted October 24, 2003 Moom, I put the word "commercial" in the posting deliberately, so the pedants didn't have a pop at me. If I'd put "Concorde's Last Flight", some smart 🙆🏻 would have said that they somehow need to be transported to wherever they'll end up and flying seems a sensible mode of effecting the move I'm the eternal optimist Maybe, just maybe - Branson's suggestions will bear fruit and future generations will see her flying at air displays or on national 'special occasions' *confused*If BA bought Concorde for two quid, why couldn't they sell it to a consortium of Concorde Enthusiasts for a similar amount? Whatever one's personal views on Branson and his various enterprises/mode of operation, one has to give him credit for at least trying which is more than can be said of the Great British Public... "ooh, I'm sad. Terrible day, etc etc. Now where's me pint? And who's goin' te win the gayme on Sa'urday?" The skies around here have been very very busy for the last few days. Do you think there's an escort being planned for the arrival this afternoon? FH Edited by - fullharness on 24 Oct 2003 13:01:43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.Mupferit Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Concorde has to be THE most beautiful aircraft ever built and I feel very sad that it is disappearing from our skies. ☹️ I remember doing a job at Filton around 1970ish and watching in awe as the plane was being built. Most summer evenings we could see (or hear 😬) Concorde as she flew oh so gracefully high above our house around 7.30 or so. As Jeremy Clarkson said in last Sundays Times, "A great leap backwards" ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ Brent Zetec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moomin Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 I agree that it is a fantastic aircraft - but I am also realistic about it, let's have some perspective here. It was designed and built in the 60s, and I guess it hasn't moved on an awful lot since then (though I am sure there have been updates to it where necessary). If people aren't using it then it shouldn't be flying - in that sense it is the right decision. I will be very sad if this really is the last time we see it flying, I guess I am optimistic that it won't be and some sort of sense will prevail. Like FH, I just hope that it will be kept flying for 'highdays and holidays'. Seems Rod Eddington (BA CEO) might just be coming round to the idea: "Mr Eddington said a decision would be made in the next few weeks about whether a "heritage plane" would be kept flying." moom www.megabird.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted October 24, 2003 Author Share Posted October 24, 2003 OK, I accept that I'm a sentimental old fool but I'm just so-o-o-o glad that we flew Concorde a few years' ago. Front row seats with all the instrument readouts right in front of our noses 😳 and a superb view of the flight deck for the whole trip, except for the take-off and landing Moomin, you're a young whippersnapper Let the oldies have a moment of nostalgia please FH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevSull Too Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 It just passed over us in Bracknell for the last time. We climbed out on the roof to watch it pass. sniff sniff. ☹️ 😬You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Birtwisle Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Glad we saw her at Manchester on Wednesday ❗ I have seen her many times coming in and out of Manchester and Liverpool (on grand national day). There was nothing quite like watching her from Helsby Hill cruise down over the Mersey and drop into Liverpool airport ... and the roar of reverse thrust as they tried to stop her before plopping into the water eeee-by-'eck them were the days ❗ Alex S713UMY 1.8K Viper Blue and Black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowly Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Sad indeed.....what of the promises of space 1999? 2001 a space odyssey? ☹️ Owner of H979 FNH The Wombat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.Mupferit Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Dear FH, Sentimental? maybe Old? nope Fool? Definitely not You never told me you had actually flown in the bird.......I'm dead jealous Kev, Get back to work you idle s*d. 😬 Brent Zetec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 All 3 just gone past London Bridge ☹️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tam Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Watched it on the telly (couldn't see them from the City ☹️). Mr C went to watch at Heathrow. End of an era 🤔 I hope not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 My boss was on the last flight 😳 (that'll be Sir Terence Conran - he got an invite) (also better watch which smilies I use in this post! 😬) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moomin Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 FH, I wish I was old enough to be more nostalgic about it - would have loved to been around when it was born. Don't get me wrong, I love the thing, and am just as much of a sentimental old fool, I'm just being realistic about it (comercially). Would LOVE to have a go in it, am jealous of you on that one! If they don't keep one flying I'll be really ☹️ ☹️ ☹️ moom. www.megabird.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative Crudders Posted October 24, 2003 Area Representative Share Posted October 24, 2003 Got back from a site visit just before 4 and the whole company were in the car park, staring skyward. Saw all three pass directly overhead (the posh side of Deptford Creek). but ultimately ☹️ Richard []=*(#7#)*=[] b-r-a-a-a-a-r-p! Visit the North Kent Area here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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