Concorde. G-BOAB

[nessiemac]

There is a family day over at the BA engineering base at LHR this weekend and AB was brought over a few days ago to be the star attraction.

Got some pics last night that might be of interest?

She has definitely seen better days but bearing in mind she has been sat outside for 25 years it's no great surprise but still spectacular.

Edited by nessiemac on Tuesday 27th May 16:17

[nessiemac]

[Austin Prefect]

It's good to see some at BA appear to be still proud of it. I did wonder if BA were hoping everyone would forget about it and they could quietly scrap it to save space.

[the-norseman]

Could of at least washed it.

I visited G-BOAC at the weekend at Manchester.

[Eric Mc]

They could have washed it - and they did.

It was given a bit of a spruce up a few days prior.

[geeks]

I will always be a bit sulky that I never got the chance to fly on one, what a thing!

[nessiemac]

the-norseman said:

Could of at least washed it.

I visited G-BOAC at the weekend at Manchester.

It was washed on Saturday.....

[nessiemac]

geeks said:

I will always be a bit sulky that I never got the chance to fly on one, what a thing!

Back in the '90's there were staff deals to fly to New York on Concorde and return on the QE2 for £499!!!

I never had any money back then and never took that offer.

Always regretted it!!

[the-norseman]

nessiemac said:

It was washed on Saturday.....

Ah ok still looks grubby.

[brums evil twin]

Hope BA have some decent staff working on Sunday for my flight to San Diago out of T5

[CardinalBlue]

the-norseman said:

Could of at least washed it.

I visited G-BOAC at the weekend at Manchester.

My plane mad four year old describes ‘Breakfast with Santa’ there as one of the best days of his life.

[Watermead]

nessiemac said:

Back in the '90's there were staff deals to fly to New York on Concorde and return on the QE2 for £499!!!

I never had any money back then and never took that offer.

Always regretted it!!

Yeah, me too. I was at VS at the time and whenever the deal came up, I always found an excuse to put it off until next time.........Doh!!!!

[Earthdweller]

Used to do training on Hounslow Heath and it was pretty noisy outdoor activity

But it had to stop when Concorde took off and climbed out over the site

Wonderful to see and hear and always regret not flying in it

Could never have afforded to back then

Didn't they do some short trips on it for the experience ?

[Quattromaster]

Slight gatecrash of thread, hope ok OP.

Seeing that hanger and hard standing reminded me of the day in Nov 2018 that BA let myself, and a few other wheelchair users pull one of their 787s 100yds, setting a new world record, 127 tonnes.

[tr7v8]

I worked at Colnbrook late 70's. Concord in the morning most days went over our building. Your mug, kit you were working on & tools ended up on the floor. You soon learnt!
Had a corporate dinner a while ago at Duxford, 3 course dinner under Concord's wing. We were shown the nose droop afterwards. Great evening.

[mikef]

Earthdweller said:

Used to do training on Hounslow Heath and it was pretty noisy outdoor activity

But it had to stop when Concorde took off and climbed out over the site

Wonderful to see and hear and always regret not flying in it

Could never have afforded to back then

Didn't they do some short trips on it for the experience ?

I studied at Royal Holloway College, Uni of London - lectures had to stop when Concorde took off late morning on Tuesdays and Thursdays (if I remember correctly)

[paulguitar]

Earthdweller said:

Used to do training on Hounslow Heath and it was pretty noisy outdoor activity

But it had to stop when Concorde took off and climbed out over the site

Wonderful to see and hear and always regret not flying in it

Could never have afforded to back then

Didn't they do some short trips on it for the experience ?

They used to do a little hop around the Bay of Biscay. Up, a glass of champagne, and a small lunch, supersonic briefly, and back again, that sort of thing. I had the brochure for it in the late 90s, but never got around to it, which really annoys me now.