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Anyone here fly the Concorde? - AAA - 11-30-2007
Watched James May's 20th century. Thought about how they had that one day from NY for free, I think? I wish, wish WISH I could have boarded the Concorde once in my life.
Re: Anyone here fly the Concorde? - Mac1337 - 11-30-2007
You mean flew the Concorde. I am waiting for the SST.
Re: Anyone here fly the Concorde? - space-time - 11-30-2007
yeah, you with you boarded the Concorde, even when the blown tire hit the gas tank???
Re: Anyone here fly the Concorde? - spearmint - 11-30-2007
My ex boss did and said cabin was tiny and only virtue was flight time and being able to brag on experience. Real entertainment was flight speed indicator on wall.
Photos and article http://www.travelscholar.com/concorde/page02.html
My boss was airplane nut with our company basically existing to subsidize the company plane and had the time of his life on the Concorde.
Re: Anyone here fly the Concorde? - decocritter - 11-30-2007
No , but I always wanted to.
Re: Anyone here fly the Concorde? - bruceko - 11-30-2007
Flew it from Caracas to Paris in the late 70's.
I am 6'2" and remembering feeling like I needed to duck slighly to walk down the isle.
Re: Anyone here fly the Concorde? - spearmint - 11-30-2007
Amazing what a leap in technology so long ago and now grounded forever.New faster and better planes? No. Instead we get that horrifying Airbus A380 with 550 seats and potentially 850 which is no faster than the original jet airliners in 1952, the BOAC Dehavilland Comets.
Where's my air car I was promised in 1955 in the funny papers?
Re: Anyone here fly the Concorde? - decocritter - 11-30-2007
That Airbus is too damn big.
Re: Anyone here fly the Concorde? - ho'ard - 11-30-2007
I assume you need some sort of license and training to fly the concorde?
Re: Anyone here fly the Concorde? - freeradical - 11-30-2007
Airplane pilots are just glorified bus drivers.