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| keith Member Since: 15 Aug 2012 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 2237  
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Another world icon lost to EU emissions control .
Technological brilliance lost forever that should have gone on a lifetime . |
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24th Oct 2013 10:58am |
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| GUM97 Member Since: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Cheshire Posts: 3555  
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10 years ago today wasn't it? That's gone way too fast!
I've been on the one at Manchester Airport a few times, and it certainly was a different era! An engine to TDi for! "Land Rover- Proudly turning drivers into mechanics since 1948"  |
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24th Oct 2013 11:15am |
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| ken Member Since: 18 Aug 2009 Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !! Posts: 4328
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Like a lot of things we are moving backwards
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24th Oct 2013 11:20am |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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There's an article about it on the BBC site today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24629451
Considered opinion seems to be that the real reason for their retirement was politics rather than anything technical or financial. Interesting anecdote about it and the SR71 too  Darren
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24th Oct 2013 12:27pm |
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| wyvern Member Since: 14 Dec 2009 Location: Cornwall Posts: 2125 
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....... and lets not mention the TSR2! ......
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24th Oct 2013 6:39pm |
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| Merlin Member Since: 30 Oct 2010 Location: Newmarket Posts: 981
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Word has it that the French have one at Toulouse airport that they bring out for taxi trials at night. So it's a worker then.
Merlin |
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24th Oct 2013 6:53pm |
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| Gareth Member Since: 12 Dec 2011 Location: Woodford Posts: 1125 
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They applied some electric power and reinstated some hydraulics on the one at Manchester a couple of years ago, I think so they could droop the nose to replace a broken windscreen, but were told to decommission it again and keep it inert by the insurance company. 2021 Defender 110 X-Dynamic HSE D300 MHEV
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24th Oct 2013 6:55pm |
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| wyvern Member Since: 14 Dec 2009 Location: Cornwall Posts: 2125
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Hi Tiger I didn’t know that they had one at Goodwood ... so maybe I missed that. I know the one at Brooklands though I saw the BA fleet of them all parked at the end of the runway at T5 not long after the grounding, a sad site it was too. During my time in the RAF I worked on the Red Arrows for a summer season as the medic at Kemble, and we had a Concord come over to do some publicity shots with the team. What a site and sound - and the acceleration when it pulled away from the reds hawks was staggering to watch. Strange to see how small they are as I saw one parked next to a 747 once , it could nearly fit under the jumbo's wing. (Now lets see what Mr Branson can do with the Australia route and edge of space travel ! ) Poppy - TDCI (Puma) 110XS 2.2 - Camper conversion - see the build here - https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic56530.html Elgar -TDCI(Puma) 110XS Dormobile - now sold Devon & Cornwall 4x4 Response - DC126 |
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24th Oct 2013 7:38pm |
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| keith Member Since: 15 Aug 2012 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 2237
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Im pretty sure every one of us has a story to tell about Concorde .
I live nxt door to Prestwick airport . One of Europes longest runways , which take offf and land over the beach . The Concord used here to train pilots for years and they often commented on Prestwick being their favourite airport . Ooooooooh the memories ! Im gonna goto bed tonight with the sound of those engines in my head |
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24th Oct 2013 7:55pm |
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| AndyS Member Since: 18 Aug 2012 Location: London Posts: 597 
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IMO, if they didn't recommission one for the Olympics then they'll never recommission one.
We stood in that car park at the side of the runway when one took off, it was very funny, a huge sound wave followed it down the runway setting off car alarms and shaking everything around. |
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24th Oct 2013 8:57pm |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610 
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Concorde would never be allowed to land or take off from most airpots of today due to noise emissions and the tree-hugging noise abatement warriors. Between 1997 and 2003 I was working on the RAF VC10s which like the Olympus engines the Conways of the VC10 were designed and built in the same era.
Basically modern jet engines have a huge intake of which approximately 75% of the air going in bypasses the compressor stages and simply encases the hot cone of efflux with a cold cone making it very quiet. The Olympus engines of the Concorde had small intakes of which all the air going in would be used making them extremely noisy. Whilst an icon in it's era time has passed. We already have/had one 'hunk of junk' flying about with the perpetual begging bowl out being rattled and numerous disappointments with the Vulcan. A lot of goodwill and favour went into the Vulcan whilst a select few made a nice living from it! Should Concorde make a reappearance with the correct dispensations and financing it would undoubtedly be a delight and a crowd puller, hopefully not another street beggar. If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!! Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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24th Oct 2013 9:23pm |
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| Tiger Member Since: 06 Jul 2012 Location: Wales Posts: 2265 
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I meant Brooklands .... doh! |
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24th Oct 2013 9:33pm |
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| william8 Member Since: 03 Apr 2013 Location: Motherwell Posts: 259 
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Being a decade on im sure we could reinvent it to be faster and more reliable and financially viable. William
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24th Oct 2013 9:58pm |
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| Jonno1968 Member Since: 24 Oct 2013 Location: Leicestershire Posts: 245 
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I was lucky to go on it twice. Fabulous to experience before its demise. A piece of great britain gone forever sadly. Probably wont be long though before someone cranks one up again. If they can do it with a vulcan why not concorde?
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24th Oct 2013 10:15pm |
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