Concorde
Nobody mentioned Concorde's first diversion here yet?Sometime in the 1970s.I haven't seen it in all these wonderful memories.I'd just arrived back from a holiday in Malaga when we pulled up and before de-planing just glanced through the window.There she was alongside.I thought we must have landed at Heathrow and I'd missed the announcement.Next morning I whistled up from Stoke to have a look at the take off.I found about 50,000 folk hanging from the trees near the Valley Lodge and a large policeman preventing access to the road leading to the south side hangers.I flashed my PPL and told him I'd got to take a plane out that morning.
His reply "I don't care if you're flying the Queen of Sheba home mate,you're not going up there"
I did hear it go though I didn't see much of it.My then flying mate P1FEL wangled a visit airside I'm sure.