PPRuNe Forums - Concorde Tours at MAN

Well, what an enjoyable day I've had.

Currently uploading around 277 photos to my Flickr page, but, while that's happening, I'll say this.

The tour was awesome, the atmosphere around the park was great and we got to see some very interesting aircraft, although I'm having to type registrations into Google to find out about some of them.

The tour was technical enough to keep us interested, but not so technical that we got confused. I was very surprised at how small Concorde is n the inside, I'm 5ft 2 and still had to duck! I also know why I never went into engineering, that engineer's panel looked confusing as anything! Seriously, how did people work that thing without their brains exploding???

We also got to see the A380 take off (missed it landing by about five minutes :( )

My boyfriend enjoyed it immensely, said it was a great way to spend a day. I'm not sure he's that keen on the Dash 8 though, kept referring to them as giant carrot slicers! I quite like them, they're not something I've ever seen before.

I must ask though, what are these radio boxes lots of people seem to have? I think they pick up ATC, but are they legal? Seemed very useful though :)