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[TheBoy]

I used to love being at our datacenter in Hardmonsworth, before the immigration centre grew above 1 story.  About 10ish in the morning, the windows would rattle, and everyone would be looking out.

Nobody ever got bored looking


I've done several internal courses in Reading, tea break was always just after 10ish, as nobody could hear anything for a minute

[Kevin Wood]

I used to love being at our datacenter in Hardmonsworth, before the immigration centre grew above 1 story.  About 10ish in the morning, the windows would rattle, and everyone would be looking out.

Nobody ever got bored looking


I've done several internal courses in Reading, tea break was always just after 10ish, as nobody could hear anything for a minute

Used to pass by my home in Camberley about 1930 every evening on its way to JFK.

Stopped by Sinsheim last year where you can see Concorde and a TU-144 side by side. Very much worth a visit along with its sister museum in Speyer.

https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/

[Allenm]

I used to work on the (top) 9th floor of Astronaut House in Feltham, could almost see the Pilot as it banked round over Bedfont lakes, never got tired of watching that.

[Nick W]

So 50 years ago we had a passenger plane that could travel at twice the speed of sound. And now we don't.

How is that progress?

because actually building and running it proved that it wasn't actually worthwhile. What was useful was bigger capacity coupled with economy for long haul flights, and even better running costs for short ones. And that was before things like internet meetings.

Sometimes what looks like progress, isn't.

[redelitev6]

Had a tour of a Vulcan bomber , huge plane but tiny cockpit , as the tour guide said " people were smaller then " 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Is there any chance the old girl (Concorde) will fly again?

[Doctor Gollum]

Is there any chance the old girl (Concorde) will fly again?

Not our one without millions being poured into it.

On a practical level, apparently someone took a torch to the main bus bars with power attached so the wiring is totally fried.
Every single component is time expired and without the British and French government funding the project Airbus won't touch it and BA can't afford it.

Had BA management taken up Beardy Branson on his offer to go halves to keep the flag flying after the French surrendered, there may be a Concorde still flying, but it would be a special occasion rather than routine as more a "because you can, not because you should" idea.

There's a couple of projects to develop a replacement, but whether they're commercially viable is a different question...

[ronnyd]

Bring back the R101.

[Viral_Jim]

Somewhere there's a photo of me and my dad sitting on the nosewheel of one in a field just outside Colomiers, I must have been about two, so 1986 ish when my dad worked for Airbus down there.  .

More recently when working for GKN at the Filton site I would drive down a couple of times a week at lunchtime to have a look at the one that was parked up at the side of the runway. Sadly that whole area is now becoming a housing estate but the Concorde at least has a dedicated hanger and museum on the other side of the site.

I've never yet been onboard one though and I would have loved to have taken a flight on one if they were still in service. 

[Varche]

A friend was an accountant and went on a business trip to the US. On the way back “ would your group like a free upgrade to Concorde? “ the senior manager declined as it wouldn’t send out the right message to colleagues back in the UK.