[Tech1] Concorde

[Bernard Newnham]

I was an office worker for a while in the late nineties - didn't want to 
be, but....  Anyway, in the summer I used to try and time my ride home 
so that the 7.00pm Concorde would fly over the M4 in front of me. An 
amazing sight. Once I was there in the traffic jam with a Portuguese 
registered car in front of me.  "You don't get that in Portugal" I 
though as it burned into the sunset

B



On 06/10/2019 14:03, John Vincent via Tech1 wrote:
> But the noise it made was dreadfull. Blame Tony Benn for giving the 
> contract to build the basically rocket engines (Bristol Olympus?) to a 
> company in his constituency.
>
> The 11am take off from Heathrow shook our house when it went overhead 
> and scared my little daughter quite badly.
>
> John V
>
>
>
> On 6 Oct 2019, at 11:51, Tony Crake via Tech1 wrote:
>
>> Also struck me as odd that the AIB decided to disregard all the other 
>> things that came to light
>>
>> The gross fuel intake , substantial luggage overload and the rather 
>> own goal in the landing wheels overhaul !!
>>
>> Sadly OB's never sent me to Clacton on Concorde !!!!
>>
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 06:43, David Newbitt via Tech1 
>> <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk <mailto:tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>     Amen to that.
>>
>>     Dave Newbitt
>>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: dave.mdv via Tech1
>>     Sent: Sunday, October 6, 2019 1:17 AM
>>     To: tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk <mailto:tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
>>     Subject: [Tech1] Concorde
>>
>>     The program about the fatal Concorde crash in Paris was very
>>     illuminating as to all the small things that contributed to the
>>     accident. Having flown in it from LHR to Clacton and back in a few
>>     minutes it brings it all back with a feeling of sadness that such a
>>     superb machine was downed by such a combination of bad judgements,
>>     accidents and just bad luck. Not cheers, Dave
>>
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