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| steve-de-s
December 04, 2010, 13:17:00 GMT permalink Post: 6101902 |
This statement has been sent to Heritage Concorde by Airbus in the UK!
It's been place on my site, but I have also placed it on here so as many as possible will get a chance to read it. Steve \x93I am sure you will receive a lot of feedback regarding the aircraft and the maintenance work that needs to be performed. In the end, however, it comes down to one key point: the owner of the aircraft, British Airways, inspected its property, and determined that while the plane was in relatively good shape, these repairs are required. As such, the maintenance and preservation work will occur. I am sure you can agree, if the maintenance and repair did not occur, the plane would only degrade further. Reference your source\x92s comments below:
Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): Airbus Corrosion Filton |
| steve-de-s
February 08, 2011, 16:49:00 GMT permalink Post: 6231994 |
"Project Rocket"
I understand that British Airways used G-BOAB to test the new \x93Project Rocket\x94 toilets designs. What about the new galleys that were also part of \x93Project Rocket\x94, where they ever fitted to G-BOAB, and does anyone have any pictures or drawings of these galleys?
Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): G-BOAB Galley |
| steve-de-s
February 21, 2011, 20:44:00 GMT permalink Post: 6261779 |
Thats super info, a big thank you!
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| steve-de-s
February 21, 2011, 22:21:00 GMT permalink Post: 6261952 |
Another Concorde on a river, I think we have seen enough of that situation with G-BOAD. The damp river location isn\x92t the best location for a Concorde, even if it does look good.
Lets find good homes from them, undercover! Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): G-BOAD |
| steve-de-s
February 24, 2011, 16:44:00 GMT permalink Post: 6268293 |
I really liked the 2nd generation cabin displays that are still fitted to the BA Concorde today. But the \x93Project Rocket\x94 displays really looked unprofessional and you would of needed
binoculars to see them from row 4!
The problem was that as you used the binoculars to view the Mach meter change to famous M200, you would have been blinded by this silly double blue lighting wave rushing through the aircraft, magnified by the binoculars. There is a page regarding "Project Rocket" at the link below, including video and pictures BA Concorde “Project Rocket” Heritage Concorde Last edited by steve-de-s; 24th February 2011 at 16:54 . Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): British Airways |
| steve-de-s
February 28, 2011, 22:46:00 GMT permalink Post: 6276870 |
Project Rocket blue light wave
Concorde was a business tool, and I feel that the blue light wave would have been a mistake. Not the right thing for Concorde!
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| steve-de-s
February 28, 2011, 22:49:00 GMT permalink Post: 6276879 |
I first saw this video a few months ago, which aircraft was it filmed on?
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| steve-de-s
April 14, 2011, 17:52:00 GMT permalink Post: 6370651 |
Concorde G-BOAF heading for the London Eye?
http://heritageconcorde.com/?page_id=7739 Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): G-BOAF |
| steve-de-s
April 16, 2011, 20:15:00 GMT permalink Post: 6395836 |
Concorde 202
Was Concorde 202 a production standard Concorde that could have been used as an airliner, or was it nothing more than a development Concorde that could only have been used for flight testing?
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| steve-de-s
May 10, 2011, 08:32:00 GMT permalink Post: 6441571 |
It\x92s a very out of date picture, even the structure hiding her has now been demolished, and there is a more up to date picture of her present location in the latest news section of Heritage Concorde
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| steve-de-s
May 10, 2011, 20:29:00 GMT permalink Post: 6442970 |
Well Google is wrong!
She has been moved to the new location!! Subjects: None |
| steve-de-s
May 17, 2011, 05:26:00 GMT permalink Post: 6455315 |
I was at Heathrow on last Sunday, 15th May; G-BOAB is still in the location detailed by Heritage Concorde. Also I can confirm that the detuner where you can see G-BOAB parked in the other picture, has now been completely demolished. Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): G-BOAB LHR |
| steve-de-s
July 22, 2011, 06:45:00 GMT permalink Post: 6587172 |
BA made the right call regarding continuing to fly their Concordes following the crash, and it was a massive mistake by the CAA to ground the British fleet. The whole crash has been one massive cover-up by the French who operated Concorde badly with regard to their maintenance procedures. The crash lies firmly at the door of Air France.
Of course we could go into the list of near crashes by Air France, such as the time when they topped up the hydraulic fluid on Concorde SD with the wrong fluid. The French had problems with their Concordes that the British never suffered, and I am surprised that there were not further crashes with their fleet. Well done BA for a wonderful nearly 28 years of safe supersonic passenger services! Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): Air France 4590 British Airways Hydraulic |
| steve-de-s
August 01, 2011, 21:08:00 GMT permalink Post: 6612869 |
Well said M2dude!
I appreciate your comments greatly, which I am fully aware of are based on nearly 37 years of experience, starting with the construction of the Concorde airframes for BAC at Filton, and following this as an engineer with BA keeping these beautiful birds flying. You are one of the real heroes and stars of the Concorde world, one of the most respected Concorde engineers in the world, add to this fact that you also basically wrote the book for BA on the air in-take system! It's a pleasure to read all your truly amazing posts based on such great knowledge gained from your mass of Concorde experience, unlike some posts on here which are based on reading books, and listening to the rubbish that\x92s out there written by those who lack any experience regarding this great aeroplane Steve Last edited by steve-de-s; 2nd August 2011 at 23:14 . Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): British Airways Filton |
| steve-de-s
August 13, 2011, 11:00:00 GMT permalink Post: 6637816 |
Filton
Save Bristol\x92s Concorde and the Brabazon Hangar
The Brabazon Hangar dominates the south side of Filton Airfield. During the 1960s it became the home of the UK Concorde production line, but Concorde wasn\x92t the first aircraft to be built within this amazing structure. The hangar was originally built during the 1940s to enable the construction of the massive Bristol Aircraft Company\x92s type 167, which is better known as the Brabazon and hence this is where the name of the hangar came from . This giant airliner aircraft had a 230ft wingspan, and was powered by eight pair-coupled Bristol Centaurus piston engines and was Britain\x92s attempt at a non-stop trans-Atlantic airliner. The prototype flew in 1949 six years and \xa33 million after the conception, and sadly the aircraft was already obsolete. The British de Havilland Comet jet-powered airliner was already well on the way and on the other side of the Atlantic, Boeing were developing their 707, and both of these would fly faster and carry more passengers than the Brabazon The prototype flew for a short while and a second turboprop-powered prototype (Brabazon II) was being built when the project was abandoned. Both aircraft were subsequently broken up in 1953. With the demise of the Brabazon project Bristol was then left with one of the largest aircraft production facilities in Europe and therefore the giant Brabazon hangars were put to other uses, these included being used for the production line for the much more successful Bristol Britannia airliner. But the Brabazon hangar has become more famous today as the birthplace of all the British built Concordes, ten airframes were built there, one prototype known as 002, one pre-production known as 01, one development production known as Delta Golf, and of course the seven airliner production airframes detailed below\x85 G-BOAA G-BOAB G-BOAC G-BOAD G-BOAE G-BOAF G-BOAG Concorde 216 G-BOAF was the last Concorde built anywhere in the world, and of course the very last one to fly in November 2003. During her final flight she flew back to her birthplace, to Filton to form a major part of a new planned Bristol aviation museum. The plan was to house the whole of the Bristol Aviation Collection, known as the BAC, in one building, a centre to celebrate Bristol\x92s incredible aviation history, and let\x92s not forget that Bristol led the world. But like so many things in this fast changing world, ideas and directions soon change and as in this case not for the better. Heritage Concorde has heard of one idea that it wishes to push forward with anyone who would be willing to work alongside the group. With next years closure of Filton airfield, one incredible heritage building stands at risk of being ripped down and lost forever, the Brabazon Hangar. So why not use this building as the centre of the history of Bristol aviation and space industry, and in memory of the man who started it all, Sir George White. It\x92s large enough to form one of the most incredible museums in the world; it would be able to house the whole BAC collection with Concorde 216 at the centre, where she was built. This idea needs to be looked into and not dismissed so easily by the people leading the effort for the new museum. Heritage Concorde will start to develop this idea further. Any ideas, any offer of help or advice??? Steve de Sausmarez Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): Boeing Filton G-BBDG G-BOAA G-BOAB G-BOAC G-BOAD G-BOAE G-BOAF G-BOAG |
| steve-de-s
August 15, 2011, 06:51:00 GMT permalink Post: 6640944 |
There will never be another Concorde, she came from an age that saw flying as something amazing, beautiful and exciting, and there was glamour and style. Today\x92s world sees flying as cheap and very unglamorous.
But what we have to remember is the as far as the BA operation was concerned, this fuel eating plane as you called it Kalium, paid for itself and made a massive profit for the company, and could have been doing the same today in 2011. Building another Concorde isn\x92t about the money, or the dreams. It\x92s about having the vision and drive to achieve something that can help deliver something truly amazing, Concorde did so much for this country alone, what about all the small companies that were involved with the project, even making the simple items such as ash trays, the project provided work and the workers paid taxes. We have lost the drive and alone with that the skill to deliver anything of any greatness in this country, we let the world in so many areas and for awhile in aviation, then handed it all over to other countries like France and walked away. The latest joke is the way we are turning our backs on these amazing new aircraft carriers; they will be world leaders in design and provide so much work for so many. What is important now is that we fight for the heritage of Concorde, and make sure that we protect the few airframes that we do still have, each one is a prototype, they are so different, what a really shame that the short sighted governments didn\x92t allow the teams to build production model number 17, this one would of made so much difference and possibly sold in mass numbers. Concorde, born of a time when we had vision and drive to achieve so much, Concorde was grounded by people with a lack of vision and of course by the nasty Alan (I killed a plane) McDonald! Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): British Airways |
| steve-de-s
August 15, 2011, 12:29:00 GMT permalink Post: 6641495 |
Britain was in a far worse state financially when she went ahead with the start of the Concorde Project than it is now. But the skills have gone mainly due to bad decisions made by former governments, and you will never get that back again!
There will never be another supersonic passenger aircraft, the next type will have to be faster than supersonic. Subjects: None |
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