G-BOAB

[CMM]

Thanks for the replies, all. I hope it is appreciated for what it is in the future.

[KBPsen]

Give it to London Zoo. I don't think they have a white elephant in their collection.

[ZOOKER]

Route HS2 via Regent's Park. - Sorted.

[AeroSpark]

Shame they couldn't find a way to put her where the old model was on the roundabout, instead of selling out to Emirates.
Does anyone know what happened to BAOD? I was lucky enough to have a pleasure flight on her years ago, 1984 I think.

[DaveReidUK]

Does anyone know what happened to BAOD?

No, it disappeared without trace.

[PAXboy]

The Americans hated the idea of the Europeans producing the first SST so much, that they delayed for years with their usual obfuscation. When they failed to produce their own SST, they eventually agreed.

When it was over? They couldn't wait to get a couple into their collection!

[Tinwacker]

Well I digressed from the Concord story, suddenly it was Apprentice Association Week. Just to add to some of you on this site I also sat in that lovely Arganaut cockpit listening to those engines running, might have been two and coughing a tad. Played round the ex BOAC Comet that returned from Mexicana.
BOAC apprentice 1967, started in the BEA hangar bashing my thumb with a hammer. At one end of the hangar was a Vanguard being converted into a Merchantman - then I woke up on PPRUNE....

TW

[TURIN]

That Comet flt deck, vampire tail booms, helicopter piston engines and Jet Provest Vipers were still being used in the early 80s to train apprentices.
However, compared to a B787 or A350, Concorde would seem archaic and irrelevant to the ipad generation of today.




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[BOAC73]

Nonsense Turin,
You can't teach hand skills with an iPad!
B73.

[Phileas Fogg]

Does anyone know what happened to BAOD?

No, it disappeared without trace.

But that's not G-BAOD, that's G-BOAD!

P.S. There's a clue in the registrations by the identity of the pre-BA customer airline

[DaveReidUK]

But that's not G-BAOD, that's G-BOAD!

Given that the thread is about Concorde airframes, it didn't take a genius to work out that the dyslexic poster in question probably wasn't referring to flying in a Rallye that was written off the same year that Concorde first went into service.

[Phileas Fogg]

Given that the thread is about Concorde airframes, it didn't take a genius to work out that the dyslexic poster in question probably wasn't referring to flying in a Rallye that was written off the same year that Concorde first went into service.

Genius's have got better things to do than go researching "reggie spotting" airframe identities, all I know, or particularly have any interest about, is that the British Concordes were designated to airline "BOAC" and not "BAOC"

And I'm pretty damn sure that the pointy nosed thing that I went circuit bashing on whilst on detachment from Lyneham to Brize Norton during 1977 was registered G-BOAD!

Right, back to worrying about the typhoons, indeed super typhoon, tropical depression and last evening's earthquake that we have been experiencing around these parts of late.

[PAXboy]

Phileas Fogg

... back to worrying about the typhoons, indeed super typhoon, tropical depression and last evening's earthquake that we have been experiencing around these parts of late.

I thought Cloud 9 was supposed to be a quiet and peaceful place???

[llondel]

I thought Cloud 9 was supposed to be a quiet and peaceful place???

After a bit of weather and earth movement, it's probably a piece-full place.

[TURIN]

Nonsense Turin,
You can't teach hand skills with an iPad!
B73.

Where did I say you could?

You won't need an insert riveted patch repair on a composite fuselage.

Troubleshooting a faulty flt control system will not involve turnbuckles and tensiometers, you will need to know how to use software based diagnostic tools.

Be well.

[BOAC73]

Turin,
Lenny Law and Shaky Jake Pender will turn in their graves!
I suspect you are correct,but I was looking at a nice set of drills and (d)reamers for the 787 repair kit the other day. Same day I had to explain what wire twisters were for to a year two apprentice. Times have certainly changed!
Cheers,
B73.

[DaveReidUK]

Same day I had to explain what wire twisters were for to a year two apprentice.

You mean those bendy things on the end of your arms?

[Bye]

it didn't take a genius to work out that the dyslexic poster in question

how do you know the poster is dyslexic, oh you don't do you