Concorde

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Off for a Concorde experience this week for half term.

Has anyone here flown on Concorde?

Oh, I wish! That was always on my bucket list.

One of my friends got Married on the one in Cheshire

does it still fly and if so, where from and how much

I think concorde stopped flying after the accident?

I remember visiting the replica at Yeovil Air Museum when I was little. I never saw the real one although heard the booms occasionally as it flew over when we lived.

We used to be able to watch it land at our local airport when I was a kid. It was a wonderful thing to see.

Yes and it was amazing. Tiny, but we arrived in NY before we left LHR! We've also visited the old one in the national air museum just outside Edinburgh.

I did aged about 10 with my parents. I don't remember much, remember seeing the display on the cabin wall show when we were at Mach 2. And noticing the sky was a darker blue than usual, as wee bit higher.

Felt excited though and my mum would have been very much so as she adored aeroplanes.

Also take off was delayed due to ice on the runway so we didn't actually save much time (flying back from USA).

What's a concorde experience given none still fly? Simulator?

I flew on Concorde from Bahrain to the UK in 1980 ( i was 9, years old). My dad was working abroad and we were lucky enough to join him. Its a very narrow plane but its truly magical. We even got to visit the cockpit!!! I was petrified for touching anything lol

My dad took my mum on Concorde as a surprise for her 60th birthday. It was fabulous apparently!

I was bemoaning the fact in front of my husband as my 60th was last year and he suggested taking me to the coffee shop at the museum of flight in east Lothian which has a Concorde there in its display.......not quite the same luxury 😁

I flew on it to New York several years before it stopped flying! It was the most amazing experience! I remember how small the windows were! The speed at which it went down the runway in NY to come home was unbelievable! And we had Meatloaf on our flight (the singer not the meat dish!).

All models were retired by the BA and AF after the crash at Gonesse in 2000. Gosh, that seems a long time ago now.

For a couple of years beforehand, I would often see it landing at Heathrow as I drove south to Sussex on a Saturday evening. Like a dart or a kingfisher, narrow, pencil-like, streamlined as it streaked above the M25 coming into land.

In the early 1970's I recall seeing some original charts at an air show explaining the original concept. Concorde was supposed to fly 44 injured troops back at a time from war zones to be treated quickly at regional hub military hospitals.

Ooh me - I did! It's one of may favourite things ever. A friend won an a trip to NY on Concorde on 4 July. We stayed at the Plaza for good measure!

I remember how small it was. How lovely it was to be served lunch with a full on tray cloth, silver cutlery and salt cellar. I still have my Concorde crystal glass.

The whole experience was amazing - I loved the science briefing and this was in the days you were allowed into the cockpit.

I was at a conference in Bristol last week at the Aerospace museum. Loved seeing the Concorde they have there but sad to see it grounded.

🤣🤣🤣 it stopped flying in 2003. It will never fly again

Will there ever be an aircraft like it again do you think?

I loved Concorde! I can remember my dad pointing one out when we were walking through Heathrow when I was little & that was that! You could just about beat anyone in Top Trumps on every metric apart from wingspan and no. of passengers.

It used to fly over my flat twice a day until it went out of service and you looked up every time, just to see it - looked like nothing else in the sky. Never got to travel on it unfortunately.

@sazza42 From memory of Top Trumps on the school bus, Concorde was 84 feet IIRC.

I always wanted to fly on Concorde. It would fly over the north coast of Cornwall every night and we knew it was time we should be asleep.

No but we lived under the flight path so we'd all run out into the garden to watch it go over.
Every bloody time. Whatever we were doing. I remember once while we were all Concorde-spotting the dog got up on the dining table and ate our dinner.

I've been in 2 in museums.

It's tiny inside and nothing on the luxury of modern business class.

You can go inside one at IWM Duxford. So cramped! I wouldn't fancy flying in one. Used to watch them fly overhead. The shape was fantastic, so futuristic.

We used to see Concorde descending for its return to Heathrow, always around 4pm on a Friday, IIRC (we're in SE London). It was a sad day when I saw it for the last time.

I remember Phil Collins playing at Live Aid in Wembley and then dashing off to Heathrow so he could get to Philadelphia to play in the second half of Live Aid there. Only possible because of the speed of Concorde!

I never got to fly on one, but I did go on one in the hangar at BA when they were being retrofitted with Kevlar-lined fuel tanks after the Air France / Paris accident. The additional weight of that meant they had to entirely strip out the interior and put less back in to compensate for the weight difference.

I've not, but my brother used to be sent to the USA on business on Concorde because it was worth the cost to his company to get him out there as quick as possible. I think he was pleased to have had the experience though he didn't actually enjoy it that much and was generally happier to fly on a 747 instead.

I love reading the posts above of people who flew Concorde!

OP - as an aviation enthusiast, I'm doing the Concorde experience at Weybridge in May - is that the one you are doing?