Concorde sea trip delayed by tide

Concorde sea trip delayed by tide

The Concorde will sail up the east coast of England to Scotland
The last Concorde’s final journey by barge from London to Scotland has been put off due to changing tides.
The 110-tonne plane was due to travel by road on Sunday and then on a specially-created barge down the Thames and along the east coast of the UK.

But the nine-day journey has been put off by one week, weather permitting.

The aircraft is now due to arrive at its final destination, a new hangar at the Museum of Flight at East Fortune, near Edinburgh, on April 20.

“The move has been set back by one week because of tide conditions,” said a spokeswoman for the operation, on Saturday.

“It will leave Heathrow tomorrow and head for the dock at Isleworth, but it will not leave there until Monday 12 April,” she added.

The supersonic plane is expected to be put on display this summer after restoration.

Last home

The total cost of transporting the aircraft, which could once travel at twice the speed of sound, is being funded as part of a 2m-pound grant from the Scottish executive.

The G-BOAA aircraft is the last of British Airways’ seven Concordes to find a home after the decision last year to end passenger service.

The other planes can be seen at Heathrow Airport, Manchester Airport, Bristol’s Filton Airport, the Grantley Adams Airport in Barbados, as well as at a museum in Seattle, US, and at a floating exhibition in New York.

G-BOAA’s first flew in 1975, while its last commercial flight from New York to London took place on August 2000.

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