Concorde Flies Again (merged)

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I live about 10 miles from Duxford, and every year I go around the museum to have a look - it really is worth it, by the way. The Concorde used to be kept outside, but for the last number of years, she has been in the hangar - as most Brits would know Duxford is a long way from the sea. Give it a few years, and G-BOAD will be totally knackered judging by her proximity to the sea and her outside location.

What was it that that good for nothing BA CEO said about preservation and the 'homes' they were going to?

Does anyone know what the Seattle and Intrepid museums paid for my Concordes? (I recall a figure of £500K for Manchester.)

[TwoTun]

Woodpecker, you said:

What a nice Engineering Flight Manager he must have to allow him, as a Bristolian, to operate the last flight. Alas the pilots flight managers are not that way inclined.

The operating Flight Engineer wasn't Warren. It was one of the Senior Training Flight Engineers. Warren was a supernumerary onboard for the flight. They had three Captains (all managers) and two flight engineers .

And, funningly enough, Warren used to be the Chief Flight Engineer for BA years back when there were 700 F/Es in the company. As of now, there are only 17 - and Warren had become the Flight Manager (Technical) for Concorde.

regards

[Noah Zark.]

I didn't know that the Concordes had been SOLD to the museums. That makes me feel a lot better about it.
Like Hell!

[Rollingthunder]

Having passed the Concorde model at Heathrow for the umpteenth time - they really should look at doing something else there.
On the base it says - "British Airways Concorde Timeless"

Sad.

[BEagle]

A little amendment to read: "Concorde - timeless, ba - useless"

[woodpecker]

Two Tun suggested Warren was not the operating engineer, but he was quick enough to get in the operating FE's seat as soon as the cameras arrived.

[Northern Highflyer]

Try this link for pictures and audio of the last Concorde departure.

http://jartweb.f2o.org/g-boaf-final/index2.html