green 0 Posted October 26, 2003 Share Posted October 26, 2003 Anyone here claim to have been on it? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted October 26, 2003 Share Posted October 26, 2003 Yes. Fraudulently as it turns out. Link to post Share on other sites
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1 4 Posted October 26, 2003 Share Posted October 26, 2003 01 The Queen's favourite seat 1 Crash since Concorde first took to the skies, in Paris in July 2000 1 Mile travelled every three seconds 2 Hours 52min 59sec. The fastest Atlantic crossing on February 7 1996 4 Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 engines that give more that 38,000lb of thrust each 6 Cabin crew 7 Concordes in BA fleet 10 Times the actress Joan Collins has flown on Concorde 20 Number of Concordes 70 Number of round-trip transatlantic crossings taken per year by the current most frequent flyer, an oil firm executive 100 Passengers per flight 204 Feet from tip to tail, but that stretches between six and ten inches in-flight 800 Pounds spent on biscuits by Justin Cornell at Tesco in order to get air miles for a flight on Concorde 1,350 Miles per hour cruising speed at 60,000ft 5,000 Hours of testing before it was certificated for passenger flight - making it the most tested aircraft in history 25,629 Litres of fuel used an hour 50,000 Flights completed 140,000 Total flying hours, more than 100,000 of them supersonically 1,000,000 Bottles of champagne consumed since passenger flights began 2,500,000 Passengers flown 140,000,000 Miles travelled 0 Flights remaining. The end. Link to post Share on other sites
TheOrange 0 Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 Whats it like then? Can you "feel the speed" so to speak? Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by 1: 20 Number of Concordes I thought there were only 16 ever built Link to post Share on other sites
dale#1 1 Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Some never flew Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Do tell more ocean..... Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 It was a joke. I'll have to label them more clearly in future. It's part of my new career of claiming to be a member of a little-known branch of the English Royal Family and gulling people out of billions of yen for the thrill of knowing me. I frequently used Concorde to visit my cousin, the Duke of New York. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 cool. Next time can you get some nice royal family t-shirts with the union jack on. Failing that, get me the complete Royale Family DVDs Any non-brits ever seen The Royale Family. (Any non-scousers for that matter....). Hilarious stuff. Link to post Share on other sites
mina2 6 Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 What are they gonna do with the planes now? Take them apart of have them as museum pieces or something?? Link to post Share on other sites
OnTheTin 0 Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 Dismantle them. Link to post Share on other sites
OzOzOz 2 Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 My father went on it. He said it was disappointing if anything, not as luxury as he thought it would be. Quite fast too, apparently. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by mina2: What are they gonna do with the planes now? Take them apart of have them as museum pieces or something?? auction them off at Christies (parts anyway), some dude laid down $560000 for the nose cone! Link to post Share on other sites
badmigraine 0 Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 Good riddance to the French Devil Bird! I remember being a little kid and seeing the protests on TV. This horrible polluting booming ozone-destroying monstrosity was doomed from the start. Surprised it made it this far! Heh. Link to post Share on other sites
hatsu-suberi 0 Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 Heres a part answer to the "whats happening to concorde" question. http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12934694,00.html Link to post Share on other sites
merryJim 1 Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 Good picture of Concorde on a boat there Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 That must have been interesting to see. Link to post Share on other sites
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