On This Day In History.....2000.....

[ToraToraTora]

Concord Crashed in Paris, sadly this was at least partly responsible for it eventually being decommissioned. I am fortunate enough to have flown on this magnificent aircraft in 1996. Who else has been on Concord? What are your Concord related trivia?

[Peter Pedant]

I was in a design room ( just after Porton Down actually) which designed a triangular plate with two holes in it

[bhg481]

TTT - yes, it is. A wonderful tech museum in Sinsheim, Germany, with a twinned one a few miles away in Speyer. They have everything there - aircraft, cars, trains, boats from all countries. We'd been to the Speyer on and on the way back to the camp site saw what we thought were two concordes in the distance. We stopped the car, got the binoculars out and realised it was Concorde and Concordski; they really are remarkably similar. We worked out it was the Sinsheim museum and had no option but to go there. Well worth a visit (a full day each) if you happen to be in the area and certainly worth a look at their website.

[Hopkirk]

Never flew on it.
However I worked as cabin crew, and was once sat in the middle of a TriStar immediately behind one at Heathrow.
We were next in line to take off behind it.
It was unbelievably loud. I swear my ribs were rattling.

[theshedman]

Hopkirk the Tri Star L10-11 was my favourite aircraft to fly on. We used to get them come into our airport in the middle east training pilots and sometimes get to sit in the spare seat behind the captain.

[Geoffrey13]

Well before it went into service I occasionally used to join the small crowd of enthusiasts alongside Fairford Air Base where it was trialled, and standing under the flightpath there was an awesome experience, you could almost reach up and touch it !