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Post by pjw4118 on Mar 10, 2017 11:05:51 GMT 12
Here's an advert from The Times 16/8/45 Bristol were quick off the mark  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 15:16:02 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 27, 2017 21:06:45 GMT 12
Today I met up with David Bradley at Ardmore. David is over here from the Bristol Aircraft Museum to work on repatriating the B170 back to the UK. With his assistance I was able to look through the Freighter as it is right now. Welcome aboard I can well remember, as an Air Scout, lying prone on those nose-doors as the Bristol rumbled through the air Looking back down the cabin, the dismantling team on their tea break Upstairs, the cockpit has taken a beating over the last 39 years  Tailfeathers stacked outside, ready to be shipped The long-term plan is to restore the aircraft in the colours and config she wore when leaving the factory for NZ back in 1954. Thanks David for the tour and also the opportunity to wander through the Pioneer Aviation hangar. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 27, 2017 21:59:43 GMT 12
Are they taking the Venom wings too?
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 27, 2017 22:25:11 GMT 12
Might fly faster with those  |
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Post by camtech on Jul 28, 2017 11:10:28 GMT 12
Spent a few hours with my head in behind those panels. Interesting to see them without all those annoying instruments, radio panels and autopilot filling the holes.
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Post by bobajob on Jul 28, 2017 12:51:59 GMT 12
Great to see the aircraft going to a good home.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Aug 4, 2017 10:22:36 GMT 12
Caught up with David Bradley again on Tuesday.
last weekend he called on ZK-EPA/NZ5902 out at Awhitu and spoke with Richard Hudson, the owner.
There are some minor parts still on ZK-EPA that are missing from 'EPG, so he has arranged to be able to rescue those as well.
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Post by gibbo on Oct 30, 2017 19:03:37 GMT 12
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2017 15:15:02 GMT 12
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Post by suthg on Nov 3, 2017 6:26:46 GMT 12
That makes three Concordes in museums in England then! Well done chaps! I have walked through two of them - Fleet Air Arm Museum Yeovilton and also one at Duxford. Is there another?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 3, 2017 7:04:05 GMT 12
Brooklands has one, don't they?
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Post by Bruce on Nov 3, 2017 8:16:59 GMT 12
That makes three Concordes in museums in England then! Well done chaps! I have walked through two of them - Fleet Air Arm Museum Yeovilton and also one at Duxford. Is there another? Yeovilton, Duxford (Both Prototypes) East Fortune, Brooklands, Bristol and Heathrow |
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Post by flyinkiwi on Nov 3, 2017 8:53:51 GMT 12
That makes three Concordes in museums in England then! Well done chaps! I have walked through two of them - Fleet Air Arm Museum Yeovilton and also one at Duxford. Is there another? London Heathrow   |
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Post by delticman on Nov 3, 2017 8:55:19 GMT 12
That makes three Concordes in museums in England then! Well done chaps! I have walked through two of them - Fleet Air Arm Museum Yeovilton and also one at Duxford. Is there another? Yeovilton, Duxford (Both Prototypes) East Fortune, Brooklands, Bristol and Adding to that, have a look at this. www.clubconcorde.co.uk/concorde_locations.php |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 31, 2017 10:59:42 GMT 12
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Post by nuuumannn on Jan 6, 2018 23:04:49 GMT 12
Manchester airport, too, although East Fortune is in Scotland  . Here's a list of where every Concorde is currently: F-WTSS (001) Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, France. G-BSST (002) Fleet Air Arm Museum, Ilchester, England. G-AXDN (101) Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford Aerodrome, England. F-WTSA (102) Stored, formerly Musée Delta, Athis Mons, France. F-WTSB (201) Stored, Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, France. G-BBDG (202) Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, England. F-BTSC (203) Destroyed at Gonesse, 25 July 2000, remains stored at Paris-Le Bourget, France. G-BOAC (204) Runway Visitor Park, Manchester Airport, England. F-BVFA (205) Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center, Washington Dulles Airport, USA. G-BOAA (206) National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, Scotland. F-BVFB (207) Auto und Technik Museum, Sinsheim, Germany. G-BOAB (208) Stored, Heathrow Airport, England. F-BVFC (209) Aeroscopia, Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, France. G-BOAD (210) Intrepid Air, Sea and Space Museum, New York, USA. F-BVFD (211) Broken up 1994, remains stored Paris-Charles De Gaulle Airport, France. G-BOAE (212) Barbados Concorde Experience, Grantley Adams Airport, Barbados. F-BTSD (213) Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, France. G-BOAG (214) Museum of Flight, Seattle, USA. F-BVFF (215) Paris-Charles De Gaulle Airport, France. G-BOAF (216) Concorde at Filton, Filton Airport, England. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2018 18:32:33 GMT 12
F-BTSC (203) Destroyed at Gonesse, 25 July 2000, remains stored at Paris-Le Bourget, France. That would be an eerie place to visit/site to see. I remember seeing the news of the crash and reacting as if it was a particularly beloved Uncle or Aunt had died. |
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Post by nuuumannn on Jan 8, 2018 13:29:20 GMT 12
I don't think you were the only one, Zac - Concorde occupied a special place in people's psyches and the Gonesse accident hit harder than what other air accidents did in the public conciousness. I was in the UK (working at the RAF Museum) when Concorde was retired in 2003 and it was big news round the country; those last flights made around airports throughout the country brought people out and turned them into plane-spotters like nothing had ever done before. a year or so later, Concorde won an Icon award for being the most recogniseable British 'thing' as voted by the public, up against the Spitfire, E-Type Jag, Underground map, Big Ben and other stuff. Still a very popular thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 15:37:37 GMT 12
In that case I don't feel so silly saying that I remain incredibly sad I can never fly aboard Concorde.
Anyway. I suppose we should go back to chatting about the Freighter!
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