By: Nashio966 - 31st January 2009 at 15:30
my grandfather said all the idea about the bangs was rubbish conjured up to hamper the planes success by the americans in particular, and that had she been allowed to go supersonic for longer and closer to her destination, flight times would have been considerably faster?
By: bri - 31st January 2009 at 15:29
I wasn’t on the trip but as an ‘inmate’ at Boscombe I watched it and laughed at the reported noise complaint recieved BEFORE the aircraft arrived. :confused:
There were plenty of those. I remember the hoo-ha in Oz before the plane arrived. The usual lies were produced in the media, including the ‘fact’ that the sonic boom would make cows abort their young.
After it flew over, a farmer from the outback was interviewed and gave the answer none of the journos wanted to hear: “My cows have heard thunder much louder than that.”
Bri 😉
By: Arabella-Cox - 31st January 2009 at 14:42
I wasn’t on the trip but as an ‘inmate’ at Boscombe I watched it and laughed at the reported noise complaint recieved BEFORE the aircraft arrived. :confused:
By: Newforest - 31st January 2009 at 13:11
News to me but a little googling says it went to New York?:confused:
MoD allows in Concorde.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 1/2/1998; 41 words ; WEST Country holidaymakers will soon be flying from Wiltshire to America after the MoD agreed to allow Concorde flights from a military airfield. The flight from Boscombe Down to New York will be the first time commercial flights on such a scale have been allowed
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January 31, 2009 at 1:01 pm