Concorde at the Air & Space

• MultiFormat Shooter

• Feb 5, 2022

An interesting take on what is, without a doubt, the "baddest" civilian aircraft ever built. How did you get access to the hangar, during cleaning?

 

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  TheFlyingCamera

• Feb 5, 2022

@MultiFormat Shooter the museum was open at the time

 

• grahamp

• Feb 5, 2022

Brings home how small Concorde aircraft are - I've seen a few on the ground and taking off from Heathrow (always drew a crowd). Never had the chance (or currency) to fly in one.

 

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  Martin Aislabie

• Feb 6, 2022

I was looking out of an aircraft window as Concorde pulled into a docking bay.
She looked like a thoroughbred racehorse amongst the fat wide bodied cart horses.
Surprisingly, the wingspan didn't look so different to the wide bodied long haul commercials - it was just the fuselage was about a quarter of the width.
Would have loved to flown in one.
Martin

 

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  TheFlyingCamera

• Feb 6, 2022

@Martin Aislabie I once saw one take off from Dulles International Airport. It put out a cloud of white smoke from the engines. Quite something to behold.

 

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  Raphael

• Feb 7, 2022

I like your photos of this Air & Space museum : no glorious shiny plane bodies, but a dark, almost funeral atmosphere, for a bygone era.