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11th February 2020, 20:20 | #1 |
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Went with the wife to Bristol today to see Concorde close up and look inside. Still a good looking bird.. both of them
The flight deck was amazing, awash with buttons and dials just as the engineers panel was too. They also had what looked like an Airbus 320 flight deck, so clear of dials and switches, it was amazing the difference. How the Concorde crew knew what everything did is staggering. macafee2 |
11th February 2020, 20:56 | #2 |
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I thought the same when i went inside the one on display at duxford. Crazy number of dials, switches and gauges. The plane was smaller on the inside than i imagined.
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12th February 2020, 08:16 | #3 |
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A nice DC 3 Dakota at Yorkshire Air Museum
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BBMF Dakota pictured through the fence at RAF Coningsby undergoing an engine run during maintenance
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12th February 2020, 11:22 | #5 |
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There used to be a DC3 that did a flower run from Holland to East Midlands airport and one could hear that droning along for ages, a great sound in the dead of night.
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I was employed in the Flight Testing of all of the British built Concorde aircraft and some of the testing of a couple of the French built ones...
When we were operating out of Filton at Fairford we had a DC3; G-AMPO, which was used as a daily shuttle between the sites for staff who had not yet made the move to the Flight Test Centre, in the early days... |
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Some years ago, whilst the Concordes were in service, I was in a lucky position where I could take guests on board ones in for maintenance. It was tight, it was claustrophobic for some, it was beautiful.
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I was fortunate to go from New York to London on it many years back. Those were the days when you could have a fag on board! Very small though. I wasn't paying by the way!
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Pity about the Wellesbourne Vulcan, according to the crew chief who showed a few of us round a couple of years ago.
He said the airframe had done significantly fewer hours than the more famous XH558, and would have 'lasted longer', so was a contender for preservation/returning to the skies. It seems it was never, or only briefly, in regular squadron service. The problem was the engines. XH558 had an earlier series of engine (200?), of which there were many available, whereas the Wellesbourne aircraft had a later version (300?), but there were very few of these. And as the two were not interchangeable, XH558 it was. As I said, anecdotally. I’m happy to be corrected of course!
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