The answer to my Can You Tell What It Is? can be seen in the photograph above. It is G-BOAC Concorde 204 formerly the flagship of the British Airways fleet.
The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde aircraft was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport (SST).
Concorde 204 had its maiden flight 27th February 1975 Filton, England, flew 6 761 supersonic flights and flew its final flight October 31st 2003 - LHR - MAN.
G-BOAC now lives in retirement at Manchester Airport’s Aviation Viewing Park in a specially built visitor centre.
I may be wrong but I think that concorde is probably the only passenger plane ever built that all 18 surving planes of the 20 built now reside in museums. Two of the concorde aeroplanes did not make retirement 203 F-BTSC crashed as Air France flight 4590 from CDG, Paris killing all 109 passengers and crew and 4 people on the ground. The other concorde that no longer exists is 211 F-BVFD this plane was used for spare parts and was later scrapped.
As a boy living in Oxfordshire not far from RAF Brize Norton I used to see concorde quite often back then they trained pilots on concorde using the long runway.
Well done Silverback you got the right answer, it is concorde.
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Cool. Is it possible to have a look incide the plane?
ReplyDeletePaul - this is a fantastic photo of a Concorde! I would LOVE to climb inside one and look around.... imagining how the movie stars and VIPs zoomed around the globe!
ReplyDeleteI saw one once sitting on the tarmac at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC. I was amazed at how small it looked.
ReplyDeleteOh, such a beautiful plane - ace shot of it too. One of my lifetime regrets that I never got to fly in it - not even a short tourist jaunt above Leeds-Bradford airport.
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