Heads Up! C4 at 9pm tonight. Concord's last Flight,

[cjs]

On Channel 4 at 9pm, looks interesting. In HD as well!

ETA. Must check spelling before posting! Concorde's

Edited by cjs on Monday 12th July 20:43

[B17NNS]

Saw this advertised last week, thanks for the reminder.

[XG332]

I would pay many many monies to fly in one.
I hear a company (British Save Concorde Group) is hoping to restore one for the opening of the 2012 olympics.

They are currently testing the olympus engines.
http://www.save-concorde.co.uk/

[anonymous-user]

Great stuff!

[FM]

Great programme.

[Debaser]

It's such a shame it's not flying any more! I would have absolutely loved to have travelled on one.

[XG332]

1350 MPH
23 Miles a minute
60000 ft

Concorde is Beautiful
One day . . . . . . . . .

[john_p]

The CGI is quite impressive in places.
Then a bit rubbish in others!

I'd forgotten about that pricing thing. They asked people's opinions.. and they all expected to pay more, so they put the prices up

[iluvmercs]

Great programme so far
Yup, it's a shame. I wish I could have been a passenger. The closest I've got is walking through the one at Duxford - It still makes a wonderous exhibit

But C4 seem to like their advert breaks for this one!

Darren

[R1-Jay]

never flew on it, but was working at the airport when they were grounded after the crash and being refitted.

I used to sneak on it every week atleast! was tiny inside the main cabin area and smelt like an old jag with all the leather!

used to love sitting in the pilots seat, childhood dream!

[KenBlocksPants]

Wow, didn't realise the timing with 9/11

[XG332]

That got pretty emotinal at the end. I love how the engineers pushed there caps into the expantion gaps.

Forever left as they will not expand to release them again.

[anonymous-user]

Someone cut one of the caps out of G-BOAG at a museum in the US as a souvenir. There was an outcry and the cap was retrieved (and think it may have been sewn back in place).

[The real Apache]

Can't deny it, I had something in my eye. What a waste, what a tragedy on all levels. The most beautiful aircraft ever that produced so many ground breaking inovations.
I just wish we could get to know the real cause for the Charles De Gaulle crash

[B17NNS]

I bought myself and my girlfriend at the time tickets for a quick supersonic birthday blat just before the AF Concorde went down.

Never got to fly it

[RetroWheels]

Good viewing , but sometimes i wish the TV companies would desist from plugging other programmes before the credits have finished.

A rather splendid and poignant ending to the programme - as the music played and the credits rolled - was spoiled by footage of fking Bruce Forsythe's massive head and then the link man yapping on about Big sodding Brother...

Couldn't they have just let the programe end ,in manner that the producer intented.

Edited by RetroWheels on Monday 12th July 23:22

[XG332]

Because of this programe and this photo.


I may be ordering
1x Concorde
9x Red Arrow Hawks

£80.00



But i fear i wouldnt have the time. So i will build the big bird first and providing all goes well i may get the hawks to reproduce the photo.
yes i am mad

Edited by XG332 on Monday 12th July 23:07

[Langweilig]

Ah, happy memories of the FAA museum at RNAS Yeovilton back in 1985 where I saw the prototype Concorde and a mock up of the cabin. I was lucky enough to see one of the Concordes at an airshow at Aldergrove back in the 1980's. Great. Now I just can't resist a compulsion to go out and buy a Revell or Airfix Concorde.

Edited by Langweilig on Monday 12th July 23:20

Edited by Langweilig on Monday 12th July 23:22

[kiteless]

"This is Captain Walpole speaking. I thought I would just provide an update as to the progress of your flight, and the answer is, 'quickly'"



Maybe, just maybe (and this is someone with a pic of the SR-71 fully lit as his works wallpaper) Concorde is the greatest aircraft ever built.

[J500ANT]

There was word of a Concorde museum at the end of the Filton airfield, sadly it's not happened yet.