Oneball
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Can’t see past the bint messing up the paint.
Pic of the day
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Can’t see past the bint messing up the paint.
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zagatoes30
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Not big enough for all the sh1t they spout out
Wack61
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What a spectacular picture , isn't it just beautiful
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Used to see it every day when working in Chiswick, and saw it take of from JFK . Shook the buildings.
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Remember leaving the business car park at Heathrow, the one next to the runway when Concorde took off. As it went along the runway it set every car alarm off in sequence, the guy at the gate said "it does that every time, awesome isn't it"
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We was robbed! Shouldn’t have lost such an iconic aircraft. Totally blame the septic tanks for burying SS aircraft just because they couldn’t do it for passengers at the time.
guess we will have to hold on for hypersonic low orbital to become a reality. Anyone fancy London to Sidney in 2.5 hours?
guess we will have to hold on for hypersonic low orbital to become a reality. Anyone fancy London to Sidney in 2.5 hours?
Amazing machines. I recall reading an autobiog from one of the pilots who said that a Tornado asked to stalk them for high speed interception practice but could not catch up!
I had the pleasure of going to JFK on one once, amazing experience, the take off speed was plain scary though.
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Some Frenchie muppet engineer "aren't they all" who was jailed for years caused the accident in France on the Concorde take off from Paris
Bodging an early repair on a aircraft, part of it dropped off into the runway
When Concorde attempted to take off later in the day that part shot up and punctuated the fuel tank!
The rest is history!
Dave
Bodging an early repair on a aircraft, part of it dropped off into the runway
When Concorde attempted to take off later in the day that part shot up and punctuated the fuel tank!
The rest is history!
Dave
Indeed but didn’t the flight engineer turn off one of the working engines so they couldn’t get back round and attempt an emergency landing?
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He was Danish and was cleared on appeal.
Oneball
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Don’t think so, the fire damaged the flight controls.
Kegworth was where they turned off the good engine. Boeing has changed the air con feed from one side to the other on the latest 737 and don’t brirf the pilots. Although the fire warning was for the left engine the pilots “knew” that all 737s got air con air for the right engine so the warning must have been wrong when smoke entered the cabin.
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If that does happen it'll be a service for the super rich.
I never had any ambition to fly on Concorde , I just think it's spectacular to see in the air and it's a national disgrace it's not flying today
I also think the UK should have an airworthy english electric lightning , I was lucky enough to see them fly in the 80s at quite a few airshows , they put on a fantastic show as a pair
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Did some work on them when I spent two weeks at RAF Bimbrook as a cadet... even had a taxi run in one with the pilot... far better than a side by side ride in a Proverst.
