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― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Good marketing ploy though:

"We're stopping Concorde in 6 months"

"damn! I must go on Concorde before they stop running it"

6 months later

"Concorde is to keep running for a further year due to exceptional demand"

I like Concorde.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

they always take this shit away before i get the chance to use it

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I missed my final go on the hovercraft. I want a go on this piece of 60s engineering before it goes. Can anyone ~~lend~~ give me £3000.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't it £8000 return??

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

1 way over the summer is £2958 plus tax at the moment on BA's site.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok its now £1999 return for the final flights on concorde.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 11 April 2003 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

my mum will be devastated. When I told her we were getting married in NYC she was 'wow, can we fly out on concorde?!' as she's always wanted to go no it, and now it won't be flying, poor thing! (not that they'd necessarily forked out so much money, but she could have dreamed for a bit)

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 11 April 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved the Newsround quote yesterday - "But it's not totally the end for Concorde, you will still be able to see the plane - in museums"

What a weak ass ploy to lure kids into extended learning areas.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

it fared better than the cheeky Soviet rip-off anyhow

http://www.aeroflot.no/tu144-2.jpg

― DG (D_To_The_G), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Why does that remind me of Big Bird?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. It totally does, Matt.

I like this lead-in from the SF Chronicle: "Say goodbye to the days of swilling champagne with the likes of Sting and Donald Trump while flying over the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound."

Yeah, I'm really going to miss those times I kicked back cocktails with the rich. Oh wait, I never did that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I would love love to swill cocktails with some celebs, but not Sting or Donald Trump. They'd pretty much be bottom of my list. Anybody would be better! Leona Helmsley! Imelda Marcos! Liza Minelli! (look who I've picked, have I gone inasane?)

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 11 April 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

Bye bye Concorde!

It was really great being able to see 3 concordes coming in on the West London landing flight path, one after the other!

Anyone else see them? Gareth? Chris?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 24 October 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw them from my office. It was surprisingly cool.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 24 October 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I took some photo's, Concorde will be but a speck in them though.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 24 October 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

aw, wish i still worked in West Ealing now :(

well, not after today i guess

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 24 October 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It's weird to have the technological march go into reverse. Good old Concorde. When there was that (second?) runway disaster and they had footage from inside the plane it was exciting to see all those rich people brought together by supersonic flight. Tony Bennett was on there and someone else, I think.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 October 2003 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

went down to the river in hammersmith to get a better view... not a lot of people there but more than usual.

http://home.clara.net/koogy/photos/concorde01.jpg
http://home.clara.net/koogy/photos/concorde02.jpg

and, typically, you wait for ages and then three come at once...

andy

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

first the sr-71, now this...

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

basically, N.'s first sentence OTM

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, we have gone back in time. This sucks.

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 24 October 2003 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes you make the market look small with hindsight, sometimes it goes ner ner ne ner ner.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 October 2003 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

My neighbors saw it over their garden. One of them, at least. One of the Concordes, I mean. Probably several of my neighbors saw it, but I just talked to Jerry. It's peculiar what a fuzzy feeling it gives me. No one could afford to actually go on it. Maybe someone here knows someone. Even my mom, hippy commie that she is, I remember speaking of it with a kind of admiration.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 24 October 2003 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i spent the night celebrating by repeatedly listening to 'there goes concorde again' by the native hipsters and drinking Concord sparkling strawberry wine.

(do they still make Concord strawberry wine? i've not seen it for ages)

andy

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 25 October 2003 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't see it at work as I finish at three on Fridays, but as I was on my way home, around Kilburn I was listening to the radio, they were talking about them coming in over London at that moment, I looked out the window and there it was. It looked beautiful, always does.

― not Vicky but chris (Vicky), Sunday, 26 October 2003 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The last time I was in London, in June, I was walking through Stockwell, heard an unusually loud plane overhead, looked up and saw Concorde. It really does look beautiful in flight, like a little paper dart.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 26 October 2003 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The awful hidden truth: it actually is a little paper dart.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 26 October 2003 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

(it was our moon landings)

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 26 October 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Noooooooo!

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 26 October 2003 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Simeon (Simeon), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It comes, sorry came, over my house at 7 every night and 11 every morning. I'll miss its deafening punctuations terribly.

Random Concorde moments :

1) Standing in the open air car-part near T4 a few years ago I saw one take off in the dark. Brain-shatteringly loud and with beautiful long blue flames shooting out of the engines.

2)I always *knew* I'd go on it one day. It became a bit of an obsession. Now I won't.

3)The nearest I came to going on it was when I was travelling back and forth to the USA a couple of times a month in the late 90s. I used to get the second last 747 flight back to LHR from JFK on a Friday night and one Friday the last two 747 flights were cancelled and we passengers were offered a hotel for the night and a flight back on Saturday. There was some spare capacity on a Concorde flight on the Saturday and a few seats were on offer. I missed out by two places in the queue. (I also resorted to some fairly desparate tactics to try and persuade a couple of people who had been successful to trade places with me. I'll spare you details)

4) Mrs. Dr. C *nearly* went on it this year.

5)Last Thursday - the penultimate day. I was driving home round the M25 at around 6pm. Looking at the stack of planes over to the west I saw a Concorde about 3 back, silhouetted in a low red sun. As it approached all 6 lanes of the M25 in both directions slowed to a halt to watch around Jct 14. People leaned out of their cars, blew their horns and waved! Magical!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Try putting 'Concorde' and 'Pepsi' into Google.....best looking airplane I ever saw!!!

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw it parked at the gate the night I got into JFK and got really excited; I had no idea the next morning was the final flight...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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