Concorde ... out of the Hangar today!

[FL390]

Thank you "gordonroxburgh." I will have my eyes and ears pealed around Brize then!

[BEagle]

No doubt all the US Secret Service spooks making sure that everything is OK for George Dubya's arrival on Wednesday will be overjoyed at the prospect of hordes of little aluminium stepladder folk thronging the boundary fence........

[Ear2ground]

The dates keep slipping due to the ETS going backwards. Rumour has it that having been left 'dry' for so long, the fuel tanks may be seeping. Curing times tend to drag at the best of times.

[BRL]

Concorde drivers... Any chance of the jumpseat..?

Seriously though, good luck chaps. Have a safe flight.




[ 14 July 2001: Message edited by: Big Red ' L ' ]

[Trislander]

Sorry to add another set of info to the list but it read on Sky News Active that the Concorde will be test flying from DERA Boscombe Down, Wilts.
Has anyone else heard this???

Is it definatley Brize on tuesday??? Does anyone have an approx. time?

Thanks,
Tri

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"Ayline 221 airbourne"

[kfly]

Good luck to everyone involved for the flight down to Brize Norton - whenever it may be.

It will be good to see and hear Concorde back in action again.

[NoSurrender]

Does DERA still exist?

[Evo7]

Most of DERA is now QinetiQ, with the bits they couldn't flog off (Porton Down, Vanguard-related etc) becoming some other four-letter acronym and being reabsorbed by MoD.

[t'aint natural]

According to this afternoon's London Evening Standard:

"The world's media, aviation experts and hundreds of enthusiasts are expected to gather at Heathrow to see the supersonic jet take off at about 2.20pm. BA Captain Mike Bannister, backed up by four of the country's top cabin crew, will take the plane out on its normal route towards the Bristol Channel."

Four of them? Bit excessive, even for Nigel.