Remember the Concorde?
August 4th, 2009 | by Andrew |Concorde – the great gas guzzling aeronautical icon that could cruise at 1300 mph, the body stretched up to 25cm in flight as it flew at an altitude of up to 18,000m. Pretty impressive for a piece of gear first made in the late 60s.
The French-Brit (Aérospatiale-BAC) partnership only made 20 and after its one crash in July 2000, world economic climate and other determining factors Concorde flew for the last time in Oct 2003.
I worked in Gloucestershire on a huge potato farm in the 80s and we were under the London to New York flight path of Concorde. The noise of the mighty aircraft climbing into space over the UK was sensational, only outdone in impressiveness by low flying jet fighters when I was working in Scotland.
So the point of this writing? I recently found some images I shot of the Concorde on one of it’s visits to Christchurch in the late 80s. Still in it’s heyday then, it was exciting times. I would have loved a ride but normal fare London to New York was $9,906 US. – Gulp!
wonder who that good looking couple are?
Kodak Gold 100 on God knows what camera.
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