Concorde

[Ztex]

September 1973, Concorde made it's first visit to the U.S. landing at DFW Ariport for the dedication of the new airport.

I found this photo of Concorde 02, F-WTSA, at DFW on that occasion in my father-in-law's slide collection!

Thought I would share. 

[skippyscage]

I missed that photo Zane - a very cool historic photo

you would think that as I cme from the land of the Concorde I'd have photos from England... maybe, but here are a couple from JFK - April 1981

in the Air France shot you can see how early they had to turn for noise abatement procedures 

[lanemiker]

On 24 April I had the opportunity to photograph the last remaining Concorde that is not currently in a museum. G-BOAB is currently sitting at the British Airways Maintenance facility at LHR. G-BOAB first flew on 18 May 1976. She last flew on 15 August 2000. She accumulated 22,296 total flight hours for British Airways. Here are a few photos of G-BOAB as she sits in her engine de-tune area awaiting a new home.









The four Rolls Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 Mk 610 afterburning engines that developing 38,050 pounds of thrust each with afterburners.


This is the aft end of the engine de-tune area that Corcorde was placed in for engine runs.


Lance

[The Edge]

When I was still at University, I had a summer job with the CAA doing noise measuring including some time inside the fence at Heathrow.  Sorry about the quality of the scans (and the original shots) but you can get the idea.

Rob