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Yes, Mongu was right with his first answer. Concorde was for many years the only aircraft in BA’s fleet that was painted white (the rest where silvery off-white) due to the fact that the skin heats up phenomenally due to friction with the air. I often wondered whether the cause of the rudder problems on Concorde (a few years ago now) were because the top of the fin was painted and occasionally exposed to more load than originally thought.

I would guess that Pepsi would have preferred the prestige of their colour scheme being allowed to go supersonic.

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 17-09-02 AT 09:50 AM (GMT)]oops finger trouble! See next post!

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The other reason for the singaporee concorde was that singapore were interested in putting in an order, so to see how weel she operated they took out a short-tem lease on the BA 1.

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I think BA and SIA had a sort of partenership for a while and did joint flights to Bahrain and singapore.

This a/c also carried a US/UK reg no. for a while too: G-N94AD

The G and the AD being the UK bit and the N94 being the US bit. This was due too the face that BA and Braniff also did joint flights, using this BA concorde.
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 16-09-02 AT 11:55 AM (GMT)]LOL !!

Oh , by the way . Did you notice this Singapore Airlines concorde !!

Does anybody know the story of this plane? Was it a lease or something?

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Maybe because the dark coloured paint would absorb more heat than the normal paint job? Or maybe it would have been bad PR for Pepsi:

“Pepsi aeroplane frightened my cat by being noisy – I’m going to sue for damages”.

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Why ?

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When painted up in Pepsi colours it wasn’t allowed to go supersonic.

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beauty.. 🙂
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Nice pictures Hand 🙂 Beautiful a/c 🙂