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Old 28th July 2009 | 19:10
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Genghis the Engineer
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The Concorde flight test prototype at Duxford has an escape chute (looks a bit like a dustbin with the bottom cut out) in the floor just behind the cockpit. I think that they even tested it with dummies in front of the blower tunnel at either Boscombe or Farnborough - probably Boscombe.

There was a successful full crew Merlin abandonment with personal parachutes out of Yeovil - early/mid 1990s from memory.

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