deicer Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Anyone looking for a Concorde keepsake for the living room? For Sale: An Original Concorde Jet Engine (With Afterburner) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conehead Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I once knew a guy who kept an F-18 engine in his barn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 On 4/15/2019 at 10:47 AM, deicer said: Anyone looking for a Concorde keepsake for the living room? For Sale: An Original Concorde Jet Engine (With Afterburner) Does that include a divorce attorney? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 On 4/15/2019 at 10:47 AM, deicer said: Anyone looking for a Concorde keepsake for the living room? For Sale: An Original Concorde Jet Engine (With Afterburner) Don't need a keepsake. Got my memory! (and the 1/72 wood model my wife got me for Christmas 5 years ago, on our memento cabinet in the living room). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Ah....ha......I flew it ......one take-off and one landing........(Toulouse in the SIM building while on the A310 course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 Closest for me was flying thru its wake turbulence over France. It was headed west while we were southbound to Spain. A little ripple. Unlike an A380 wake turbulence where it felt like you got punched in the chest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 22 hours ago, blues deville said: Closest for me was flying thru its wake turbulence over France. It was headed west while we were southbound to Spain. A little ripple. Unlike an A380 wake turbulence where it felt like you got punched in the chest. The AF Concorde was probably enroute to SM15W after departing one of the 26's at CDG. I'm guessing it followed a similar flight profile the BA Concorde flew xLHR in that it remained at ~FL280 until able to climb in supersonic transition to its first waypoint on the SST tracks of the day ( http://occ.ivao.aero/proc_atc.php?page=conc ). I would guess the climb transition was initiated somewhere north of the Channel Islands (Guernsey, Jersey). Blues, can you remember where you were (lat/long/FL) when you flew underneath her flight path? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaydee Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 I was sitting in BGI one day waiting out a turnaround when BA delivered a Concorde to Barbados for its last flight ever. Couple of pilots and 2 mechanics got off, did whatever was needed to disable it then walked away. I remember the Crew turning around one last time to stare at it. Eventually it was towed to a make shift hanger where it sat covered for a few years for eventual transfer to a museum when it was built. Was kind of sad to see such a majestic bird abandoned like that, although it did find a forever home. https://barbados.org/concorde.htm#.XL2eJ4pE2fA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 10 hours ago, Moon The Loon said: Blues, can you remember where you were (lat/long/FL) when you flew underneath her flight path? Not quite but I remember the weather was CAVU and the AF Concorde passed in front of us left to right at the same level. We were west of Paris probably talking to Brest ATC on our way to Faro. Summer wet-lease out of Manchester if you recall those days. The odd thing was they didn’t warn us about wake turbulence. Instead the controller said we might hear a ‘sonic boom’. I wasn’t quite sure how that was going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acsidestick Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 When the Concorde was on its farewell tour, it came through YYZ. It was departing R23 with our 767 next in line holding short at Hotel. With us only a 150 feet away, it brought the engines up to full, before releasing the brakes. I've never experienced a better example of turning JetB into noise. Our whole airplane shook with rock concert level bass boom that made your stomach flutter, and we were unable to hear ourselves. In my memory, I've made it a full afterburner takeoff, but can't really remember whether that's true or not. Pretty impressive way to let everyone know you're leaving the building either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 5 hours ago, acsidestick said: When the Concorde was on its farewell tour, it came through YYZ. It was departing R23 with our 767 next in line holding short at Hotel. With us only a 150 feet away, it brought the engines up to full, before releasing the brakes. I've never experienced a better example of turning JetB into noise. Our whole airplane shook with rock concert level bass boom that made your stomach flutter, and we were unable to hear ourselves. In my memory, I've made it a full afterburner takeoff, but can't really remember whether that's true or not. Pretty impressive way to let everyone know you're leaving the building either way. All their operational departures were "full reheat" (that's Brit for afterburner). They were turned off in the third segment, if I recall, and re-lit during transition to supersonic flight until a stable shock wave was established (somewhere vicinity M1.3). From Blues' description, they were in their initial transition. Something to behold, for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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