You know that pessimism knocks years aff of your life expectancy!?

True, true. I used to be 20, and look at me now!!!

You can’t compare any retired aeroplane to Concorde.

Of course I can!

At the end of the day, it’s just a machine for transporting people and their luggage from Point A to Point B that has outlived it’s usefulness.

Nothing more, nothing less…………….

I hear what you say, but they’ve hardly been ignored.

Let’s see how many comment on mine later, should there be anything of interest at Ringway….

I wonder whether plawolf would care to comment on this???

I understand, but anyone not from Manchester listening to inbound and outbound traffic on their scanner wouldn’t hear “Runway 2” mentioned an awful lot, would they?

Well, the exhaust temperature of an RB211 is somewhere in the order of 450 C, so it’d have to be a very hot day indeed!

Two things (apart from the angle of the sun) about that BA picture still nag at me .

1) If you look closely at the area around the tail and tailcone it looks as though it’s been matted onto the background.

2) Where’s the exhaust from the 4 engines? The background behind the rear of the aircraft should be blurred by the hot exhaust gases (compare with the IL62 picture). It doesn’t appear to be, though.