How Time Flies..Tenth Anniversary Of The End Of An Era

[Garry Russell]

Ten years ago today, October 24 2003 Concorde was retired form passenger service with just a small number of deliveries made afterwards.

[DaveB]

10 years.. deary me My flabber is well and truely gasted!!

To be honest mate.. it seems a darned sight longer than that looking back at what has happened over the last ten years

Funny you mention Concorde though. I was considering finding the FS model (PSS) and seeing if I could finally get further than Ireland in it

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Hi mate

Know what you mean

Mum died coming on two years ago, yet it seems so recent.

However when I think what had happened since, moving out, moving back in, now moving out again and with all other things it seems like ten years.

[511Flyer]

I'm a member of Club Concorde, and have just received the latest newsletter. There is a possibility that she may fly again, at least, one of the French ones.

Details have been posted on the website www.clubconcorde.co.uk along with other news of some interesting projects.

Dennis.

[Garry Russell]

It will never fly again.

I know what the French keep implying as regards the aircraft they got 'active' again, but it 's a pie-in-the-sky dream, nothing more.

[airboatr]

To think 10 ten years ago I was 10 years younger ..

[FlyTexas]

To think 10 ten years ago I was 10 years younger ..

Me too! Well that's a coincidence. I remember reading at the time one of the Concorde pilots mentioned that for the first time in aviation history we were going backwards, technology wise. Sad ain't it?

Brian

[Chris558]

I still have BBC live news footage on VHS of the three Concordes coming back to Heathrow, with Raymond Baxter in the studio...Might watch it later.

Ten years...Wasn't this forum still hosted by that Shackleton FS site back then?

[TSR2]

It was indeed, 17th June 2004 we came home.

[Garry Russell]

Funny how Concorde conception goes back to the fifties and the detail design to the sixties with entry into service mid seventies yet we still think of it as modern ten years after it was all over.

At the time it was getting firmed up Dakotas were still in widespread use and thought of as ancient...well, they were twenty-five years old

I used to marvel at watching Concordes landing and taking off at LHR and thinking as a airframe it's older than a lot of the others surrounding it and as a design often the oldest aeroplane on the ground.

Right until the end it held magic...the crowds would suddenly slip over to the rail facing the active with a sense of awe and watch the latest departure.

Shame it had to go. I feel lucky to have seen them on many occasions.