Read in the papers last week that Concorde will take-off in the weeks for tests on its new safety features and could be flying the LHR-JFK route later in the year. 🙂
What great news to see it flying again.
I did read in The Mirror (not the most reliable of aviation resources) that it will fly out on Thursday. Can anyone confirm this or know of an actual time as I’d really like to be at Heathrow to see this happen. (and get a photo or two).
By: Bhoy - 23rd July 2001 at 21:23
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The BBC reports today that BA is aiming for a September relaunch of Concorde flights, while AF won’t resume concorde flights until October.
By: Saab 2000 - 23rd July 2001 at 17:10
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Just heard that BA say concorde will be flying again by the end of september.
By: V1 - 19th July 2001 at 17:42
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By the way, if you want to find out more about Concorde and all of the news relating to her, then check out this superb site:
This is a very comprehensive site and is more than worth a visit.
Regards,
V1
By: V1 - 19th July 2001 at 17:36
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Several sources I’ve read suggest that BA and AF are working together to get the aircraft back in the air by September, although I could imagine that maybe some French people could be more reluctant than us Brits to get Concorde back in the air due to the fact that the July 2000 disaster happened on French soil with an AF machine.
The rumours of BA purchasing the AF fleet are utter hogwash to be quite honest. BA would never be able to sustain the extra airframes – there wouldn’t be enough demand to fly eleven a/c in one fleet.
Plus, if AF didn’t want their fleet, why would they be carrying out the mods in the first place? Many French people do want to see Concorde in the skies, as like us Brits, it is a matter of national pride.
By: KabirT - 19th July 2001 at 05:37
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I heard that Air France is being very reluctent to take the the Concorde back in the air. During a review done my Air France, many people dont want the Concorde back in the air. I also heard some where BA planning to buy Air France Concorde’s.
By: dan330 - 18th July 2001 at 23:32
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I don’t know how the tests are going but I did read somewhere that Air France and BA had agreed that they would both resume Concorde passenger flights on the same day, so they must be going pretty well.
By: Saab 2000 - 18th July 2001 at 19:34
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Again it is EXCELLANT!!!news that Concorde is up in the sky again,only hope it can return to passenger operations in the near future,some reports said at the end of summer.Unfortunately you can’t say the same for the Air France Concorde’s,does snyone know anything about them?I really miss seeing the CDG-JFK Concorde flight flying over my house at around 4pm every afternoon and hearing Concorde’s sonic boom.
Really good news,
regards Saab 2000
By: Bhoy - 18th July 2001 at 10:40
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Concorde’s usual transatlantic route is a lot more direct than most airliners’. From Heathrow, it’s due west, over the Bristol Channel where the afterburners get lit, and pretty much straight on to NY from there, passing just south of Cork. Not very close to Co. Down! Having said that, it flew an unusual loop yesterday, heading north towards Iceland, then coming back.
The BBC site I mentioned earlier has pictures of Yesterday’s flight path.
By: KabirT - 18th July 2001 at 05:16
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Well…its really great to see the bird in air again. My best wishes with it for the future.
By: GT - 18th July 2001 at 01:04
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HI’
Does anyone know the exact route concoured took on her flight. I live in County Down, Northern Ireland and approx. an hour after she left heathrow an aircraft passed over my house that i found strange. The noise this thing was making was was like a squadron of tornado’s at low level i could’nt visually see any aircraft but nothing like this has ever passed over before. My house seems to be right under many of the trans-atlantic routes with 747’s, 777’s’ a340’s etc, flying over daily. On a good day you might get 10 aircraft flying almost in formation across the sky in one wide line. I’ve iddentified many as Virgin Atlantic and Canadian airlines while i know Pan-Am flight go right over here because the tragic lockerbie crash could have easily happened here.
There is’nt much on the military side over here apart from the usual chinooks, wessex’s, lynx’s and gazelles flying at about 200ft of the ground,i’ve even seen gazelles going behind the tree lines in land near my house.
Anyway its great to see G-BOAF get the air under her wheels again, bet the people living under the heathrow flight path are just over the moon!!!!
By: dan330 - 17th July 2001 at 23:52
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Thanks for letting me know about that, its now fixed.
By: Bhoy - 17th July 2001 at 23:38
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1 of the links on your website is doubled.
the middle take-off picture takes you back to the right taxi-ing pic.
By: dan330 - 17th July 2001 at 23:11
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Went down to Heathrow today to see it happen. The Queens Building terrace was absolutely packed with people, I was interviewed for the Sky News web site (got my name mentioned but that was about all) and saw the journalist from BBC’s Airport up there too. There were numerous cammeras and I got a few pictures myself:
http://www.plane-mad.com/thumb/bassc_lhr-3-t.jpg  http://www.plane-mad.com/thumb/bassc_lhr-5-t.jpg  http://www.plane-mad.com/thumb/bassc_lhr-4-t.jpg
Second one would have been a perfect picture if it wasn’t for the Ghana DC-10!!
More and bigger versions on my web site: http://www.plane-mad.com
Great to see her up again, a thought everybody shared today apart from two protesters with a banner calling it “a beast” and the “British Airways Con”, complaining about something or other (environmental I think).
By: Bhoy - 17th July 2001 at 23:08
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The BBC has some stuff, too…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/events01/uk/concorde/slideshow/concor… slideshow, with interview with Cpt. Banister (requires Real Player)
story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1444000/1444046.stm
see 6 o’clock news report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1440000/video/_1444144_concorde_hall18_vi… (includes video of take-off)
By: EKRK - 17th July 2001 at 22:48
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And as usual, Airliners.net were right there one the spot:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=175986
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=175987
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=175988
Ahh, what a beauty
By: philo - 17th July 2001 at 22:22
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Yep, she arrived at Brize at about 5.40 this afternoon , i was going over but it was absolutely tipping down(heard her through the mirk). She will stay there until the end of the week apparently, possibly doing some further tests from there, so i’m on standby to dash over.
I have heard that the rest of the fleet will all do some post mod test flights in and out of Brize Norton over the coming months, should make some good viewing around here, just like the old days !.
By: keltic - 17th July 2001 at 17:36
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Well dear V1 a kidney a bit too much.
By: V1 - 17th July 2001 at 17:35
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Well, as I write this post, G-BOAF is now airbourne and should be on it’s way back to Brize Norton. She took off safely from LHR, rotating at 190mph and darted straight towards the atlantic. Like Keltic said, good luck to her.
P.S. – A free flight on Concorde – I’d sell one of my kidney’s to fly on one!
By: keltic - 17th July 2001 at 10:14
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Good luck, the members of this forum should be awarded with a free flight anywhere on Concorde. Specially considering the support we all h ave given to this nice plane.:-)
By: Bhoy - 16th July 2001 at 12:14
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BBC Teletext today (16/07) says that BA has confirmed that concorde will carry this flight out tomorrow. It is due to leave LHR at aprox. 14:20 BST, fly out over the Atlantic, and land at RAF Brize Norton around 18:00 BST.
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