Went to East Fortune Air Field, home of the Scottish Museum of Flight (just south of Edinburgh) last week to see Concorde.

This particular one was : G-BOAA, the first Concorde to ever fly supersonic whilst carrying passengers. It was also the Brittish Airways plane which landed simultaneously with its Air France coleague on parallel runways touching down in New York, completing the first supersonic transatlantic flights in the early seventies. The plane was grounded after the Air France crash and was never flown again.

Didn't get many pictures inside the aircraft as there wasn't alot of space nor time to take pics before you were hurried along the cabin. The seats on board were very comfy, but it did seem very claustraphobic since the windows were tiny.

Looking at the outside of the plane it appears so much bigger than it appears on the inside - it really is tiny on board, in comparison the delta wings seem huge.

The whole exibition was very good, and it included a short film about the Concorde, including the comments NASA made in the 60's during the design stages - "Designing and building a supersonic passenger airliner is far more difficult than designing a space shuttle". Even things like the interior carpet possed a challenge as it had to stretch up to 18 inchs, as the plane stretched during flight.

Anyways heres this pics:

 

id like to see this,good thread

 

Good pics, looks like a good thing to go see seeing as not many of us will ever travel in one!


check this out, some guy's found a concorde he can explore for free !!

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/...ead.php?t=5388

 

Read over to page two and its at Brooklyn Museum - still alot better since you can get into the cockpit in that one. The one i was on the cockpit was blocked off with perspex.

Cool forum though

I would seriously recommend anyonwe to take the trip over to see it.

 

nice pics mate , and what a plane, they wont ever make anything like it again.