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Took a diddy trip down to Filton a few weeks ago to see her grace Alpha Foxtrot the youngest Concorde in the whole fleet.

She flew 18,257 hours
5,639 supersonic flights
6,045 landings
In May 1993, Concorde 216 was the first to be fitted with a refurbished interior and repainted in the final livery sported by all the British Airways fleet.

Enough talk for now, it's picture time!

Heaven

Heaven

Heaven


That set of gear was never touched and has no scratches on it.

Front on.

Her grace.

BLIMY CHARILE!


Hope you enjoyed.
Tom

Very nice, there is one down at Manchester Airport gonna have to get myself down there for a visit

Very nice, there is one down at Manchester Airport gonna have to get myself down there for a visit

Those are the old ones......

shame they had to ruin her by building a staircase out of concrete up the side....I went to visit her about 2 weeks after she opened to the public, before I had a digicam

I just need to see the one at Heathrow to log all the examples left in Britain

nice pics....dont you just hate the way they put perspex in front of the cockpit

.mic

Very nice.  Shame to see her there.

I was standing right beside the fence adjacent to 27R when she took off for Filton on her final flight.. It was a cold, gloomy, overcast day and when she took off a gap appeared in the clouds, the sunshine shone through and she headed straight for it.
You couldn't have made it up, it was a sight I'll never forget.  :(

There's a video of it on ConcordeSST somewhere.. it's ages since I posted there, I think it was by somebody called Thamesweb or something like that.

Landing at Filton for the last time

http://www.george-edwards.me.uk/html/co ... ilton.html

First Flight

http://www.george-edwards.me.uk/html/concorde_high.html

Bittersweet, for sure... strange how a mere machine can elicit so much emotion...  :'(

here is the video that charlottesdad was talking about
http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/news/261103BOAF.html

Well done Bonair, that's the one..
Ooh I've gone all emotional watching that again...  :'(

Oh that is very nice. too bad they retired her.  :( i love the cockpit shots. lovely. 8-)

I'd only get emotional if I had ever flown on her, but seeing her this way...nyah.

The seats look like the ones in Air Berlin aircraft...

Those seats in Air Beriln if so they must have alot of money to get those seats there.

Those seats in Air Beriln if so they must have alot of money to get those seats there.

I must be noted that Air Berlin is a low-cost carrier.