Taken on 24th October 2003, showing the final ever three landings by British Airways Concordes into runway 27R at Heathrow. Quite an amazing experience as they all came in one after the other.
Concorde was amazing, standing 200 foot under the plane at takeoff with the afterburns glowing at dusk was a pretty amazing site. Concorde wasn't unsafe - the French incident related to poor procedures on the part of Air France and bits dropping off other planes - debris on the runway. Certainly BA Concorde was safe because they had different tyre procedures. It was not a great day for humanity Concorde was an amazing engineering achievement unlikely ever to be repeated.
Were you born under a rock? Of course they wen't supersonic! 3hrs 30 mins London to NY. Looks like it will be the only passenger aircraft to fly supersonic! America never ordered them because it wasn't an American venture!
What is the point of comparing it to a 747? Clearly it was not designed to compete with the 747, it was a supersonic aircraft. We're all well aware of the commercial drawbacks of Concorde, and so are the airlines which is why it's not running anymore. So thanks.
Yep. That afternoon 27L was the arrivals runway with 27R for departures. They halted departures on 27R for a few minutes to bring the 3 Concordes in one after the other.
Shame they have gone. The US and the French killed Concorde. French due to lack of checking the runway and the US for the metal strip plus they didn't like the idea that it wasn't a boeing.
