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My wife and I were cleaning out a closet today so I can get the kits in my stash out from under my desk and off the floor. During this cleaning event, we found hundreds of old photographs. Many, many of the old photos were of both our families going back to the 1920's and up to today. I was very surprised to find this photo taken by an Orlando Sentinel photographer of two Concorde SST's landing at Orlando International Airport. As I understand, this may be the only time a pair of Concordes had landed at the same time on parallel runways. October 18, 1982. I was there that day but I didn't have a camera with me. I bought this photo from the Sentinel maybe 6 months later. The original photo is pretty faded. I tried to bring up the color in Photoshop to make it more pleasing to the eye. Click on the photo to see the full size.
OK. In the stash: Way too much to build in one lifetime...
That's a brilliant photo - and a bloody good piece of formation flying for a couple of airliners! Thanks for sharing, Frank.
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Hutch6390 That's a brilliant photo - and a bloody good piece of formation flying for a couple of airliners! Thanks for sharing, Frank.
Hutch, the Concordes crossed the coast south of Melbourne, FL and maintained formation to landing. After they crossed the coast the two airplanes had to stay subsonic.
Greta photo and i am sure they could not have done better if they had planned it.
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Bish Greta photo and i am sure they could not have done better if they had planned it.
I think the formation landing had something to do with some Disney event back in '82.
Cool, Air France and British Airways.
Our SST program kinda fell on it's face. Swing wing and all.
Steve
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That might explain it.
modelcrazy Our SST program kinda fell on it's face. Swing wing and all.
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My late father was an engineer on UAL's Concorde evaluation team. We spent a number of summers outside of Bristol while he was over at the airfield at Filton.
His take on the thing was that it was a really big Mirage fighter.
Whether the technology now exists to make suoersonic transport affordable, in the 1960's it did not. Without transcontinental usability the Boeing project could not make money, and the Concorde never was intended to.
Great picture, the thing does make me sad for how it all ended.
Thanks for sharing.
Bill
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Eaglecash867There's another one in the works right now.
Maybe just me, but the name "Boom" for an aircraft just doesn't inspire confidence.. Not directly related to the original post, but I thought I'd post it here,
Terrific picture! Thanks for sharing - I have the Revell 1/144 kit in the stash.
Thanks,
John
Phil_H Maybe just me, but the name "Boom" for an aircraft just doesn't inspire confidence..
Maybe just me, but the name "Boom" for an aircraft just doesn't inspire confidence..
Reminds me of an old Benny Hill skit, where he said pretty much the same thing. Referred to Boeing as "Boing". Never have forgotten that one.
Well, I misspelled Concorde.
All fixed.
Inspiring picture. Great stuff. The only real-life Concord I saw was at Oakland California in about 1985. I watched a pilot do a walk-around, pre-flight as the plane was sitting at the passenger ramp. As part of his inspection, he went up to the left nose tire and kicked it. I fell over laughing. In Naval Aviation we used to say a pilot's prep for flight was to "kick the tires and light the fires." This guy must have been a Naval Aviator.
Thanks for the links guys! Always nice to see great stuff from the past.
Jim
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I agree with the gang, what a cool picture.
I feel like I remember this from the news at the time, but not sure.
The Boeing SST mockup was inside a church in Kississmee, Fl forat one time.
Boeing SST In Florida? - Airliners.net
ikar01 The Boeing SST mockup was inside a church in Kississmee, Fl forat one time. Boeing SST In Florida? - Airliners.net
I remember. I went to the so-called SST Museum with a friend back in the '70's. The place was a mess but the mock-up was cool. There also was a B-25 on display there that Tom Reilly eventually restored to flight.
I would have liked to have seen it. It seemed a rather unusual place to hold church services though. It would almost like doing the same thing under the B-70 or B-36, and I've been under those monsters.
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