Concorde, An Amazing Fact

[Guest The Modfather]

During it's servicable life, the RAF did NOT have a fighter jet that could outrun Concorde!

[Guest jetskijase]

good ole brits going backward in technology!! damn shame they grounded them, i was workin on my sister in laws sister for a cheap ticket at the time!! she worked for BA. gutted!!

[Guest The Modfather]

Mum was looking at getting tickets for my dad's retirement, but couldn't due to the grounding. She bought him some golf clubs instead!

[ibrooks]

During it's servicable life, the RAF did NOT have a fighter jet that could outrun Concorde!

 

These sorts of statement always puzzle me. Why would they need one? Even assuming it fell into unfriendly hands and they thought of some nasty use for it other than running it into something like the World Trade Centre and you get wind of it in time that you wanted to shoot one down to prevent it - it's not the chasing plane that does the damage and we most definitely had ordnance that could catch and kill Concorde.

 

Iain

[Guest Matt_wood]

only if its in range at the time of knowing its gone rouge, i guess

[Guest The Modfather]

These sorts of statement always puzzle me. Why would they need one? Even assuming it fell into unfriendly hands and they thought of some nasty use for it other than running it into something like the World Trade Centre and you get wind of it in time that you wanted to shoot one down to prevent it - it's not the chasing plane that does the damage and we most definitely had ordnance that could catch and kill Concorde.

 

Iain

 

It was just to say that the public had access to a faster plane than the military have ever had.

[Shaft]

The English Electric Lightning could outpace Concorde, and it was done by 'Lightning XR749', piloted by Mike Hale.

 

My Dad is really big into old RAF stuff and your post intrigued him when i mentioned your fact.

He mentioned something about a challenge between the RAF and BA that he remembered from yester-year, so i Googled it!

 

Good old Dad!

 

Sorry Daz.

 

Nick.

 

Clickety Clickety Click

[Guest The Modfather]

Oh pooh bums!

 

Well done Nick's dad

 

I sit corrected

[chris n]

the SCG are trying to get a Concorde back into flight

Save Concorde Group

[Guest peter2b2002]

I remember it well, lovely plane, had a look inside when I worked @ Heathrow,

brought a tear to my eye watching the film clip on that link

peter2b

[fry61]

Thanks for that clip Chris, had to watch it twice, to full of tears first time round. A lovely reminder of a beautiful engineering masterpiece.

[Guest scottie686]

I'd heard that at mack 2 the plane was 3" longer than at stand still!

[chris n]

Concorde is something close to Becks heart , we have a few DVD's on her, plus Becks was part of the team that worked on her refitting her out with the seats in the mid 90's

[Guest Vindi_andy]

I'd heard that at mack 2 the plane was 3" longer than at stand still!

 

IIRC it was actually 11" and there was a gap between the cockpit bulkhead and the engineers panel where this was actually detectable. On the ground you could just about get your fingers into the gap. In flight you could get your fist in the gap. Told me by a member of concorde cabin crew.

[Jamiep]

IIRC it was actually 11" and there was a gap between the cockpit bulkhead and the engineers panel where this was actually detectable. On the ground you could just about get your fingers into the gap. In flight you could get your fist in the gap. Told me by a member of concorde cabin crew.

 

the BBC showed one in a museum where the captain of the last flight stuck his cap in the gap and now it's there forever more. watching that programme showed how much the crew loved the plane. apparently they lost 40 of their most frequent flyers on 9/11.