Welcome to Heritage Concorde
The number one Concorde website and the largest storehouse of Concorde facts & info!
JOIN THE HERITAGE CONCORDE FACEBOOK GROUP
Click on the link above to join the discussion with former Concorde engineers
HERITAGE CONCORDE NEWS UPDATES
News updates regarding the remaining 18 Concorde airframes
HERITAGE CONCORDE TECHINCAL
Learn how Concorde worked, how she was put together and how her systems were operated with the most in-depth Concorde technical section on the internet today!
THE CONCORDE, by Norma Dunlevy
A story written by Norma Dunlevy, the wife of Concorde engineer John Dunlevy, on the day that BA retired Concorde
CONCORDE RETURNS TO LIFE IN PARIS
Engineers have been working on Concorde Sierra Delta since 2003, watch her come alive
IAN KIRBY – British Airways Concorde Flight Engineer
Listen to the amazing voice recording of a British Airways Flight Engineer, who flew more hours on Concorde than any other engineer in the history of Concorde
HERITAGE CONCORDE ACHIEVEMENTS DURING 2011
This is a link to ‘Flight International’, which details the amazing achievements of ‘Heritage Concorde’, remembering that this group was only formed on March 3rd 2010. Sadly this will be the last Heritage Concorde Project!
ENGINEERS VIEW OF THE PARIS ENGINE BOROSCOPE INSPECTIONS 2010
A link to the engineering report regarding the tasks carried out to Concorde Sierra Delta during May 2010
HERITAGE CONCORDE BRINGS CONCORDE G-BOAC BACK TO LIFE DURING 2011
“Project Flagship” This has been the dream and fight of so many since 2003. This is the remarkable true story of the tasks carried out by the Heritage Concorde engineering team to BA Concorde G-BOAC at Manchester Airport during 2011. Heritage Concorde now stands as the only British group to have returned a British Concorde back to life, but this will remain the last Heritage Concorde project, but a lasting testimony to the drive and hard work of Heritage Concorde!
HERITAGE CONCORDE “PROJECT FLAGSHIP” VIDEOS
Watch film of the most amazing achievement in the history of the British fleet since 2003, watch as Heritage Concorde brings G-BOAC back to life!
THE CONCORDE FLEET
Facts and info about the entire fleet of 20 Concorde airframes, including prototypes, pre-production and production aircraft
Welcome to Heritage Concorde, the aims of the site are to bring you the Concorde fan all the details and information that you would require to satisfy your hunger for this amazing aircraft. Since the website first went live on the 3rd March 2010, it has quickly become the worlds number one Concorde related site with hits in excess of 10,000 per day. The site will continue to grow with new sections being added all the time. The site is a non-profit making website and will never contain any advertisements; all costs will be met by the Heritage Concorde team.
Heritage Concorde is a site that brings together the latest facts and technical information regarding the greatest, most exciting passenger aeroplane ever built. Heritage Concorde is independently owned and is not affiliated to any other organisation or group. Heritage Concorde supports all the serious efforts for a heritage flight and return to life for the aircraft, and the preservation of all the remaining Concorde Airframes around the world, in memory of this technical miracle.
During 2011, following years of disappointment and claims by others that they were working to restore Concorde to flight, Heritage Concorde formed Heritage Concorde Tech and set to work in the direction that it believed was the right one. Within the first year Heritage Concorde restored British Concorde G-BOAC back to life at Manchester airport, and therefore became the first and to date the only British group to achieve such amazing goal. Sadly due to the efforts and egos of others this project was cancelled during September 2011, for more details see the section Project Flagship, a link can be found on this home page.
There are 18 Concorde’s preserved around the world in memory of this too short supersonic passenger era. These aircraft will now serve as a lasting reminder of the ‘Heritage of Concorde’, the unrivalled expertise and cutting edge technology in both Britain and France, that produced the world’s only successful supersonic airliner.
Concorde was born of dreams, built with vision and operated with pride, Concorde has become a legend and part of our heritage.
Concorde is one of the wonders of the modern technical world, the first commercially successful airliner capable of speeds in excess of Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound). Concorde is an outstanding aeroplane, it is a technical miracle, and more. For the men who designed and constructed her, the crews who tested her, and for those within British Airways and Air France involved in her operation, flying her, maintaining her, marketing her, and for her passengers, Concorde was a way of life.
The story of Concorde is a story of survival, in her long history, she has been vulnerable in four main areas – Technically, environmentally, politically and economically. Many times she stood close to extinction, but she survived, thanks to the dedication, faith and belief of those who controlled her destiny at various critical phases of her life, until 2003 when a group of short-sighted men grounded her before her time. The design, construction and maintenance teams had overcome many and varied problems over the years, and Concorde became a safe, proven, reliable and totally unparalleled piece of aviation technology, flying the world’s air routes and causing heads to turn at every sight of her.
Heritage Concorde restored the British Airways Concorde G-BOAC back to life during 2011; this task had been the dream and fight of so many Concorde fans since 2003. It was amazing achievement by our team here at Heritage Concorde, who worked in secret solely on their own without the help of any other groups for months. The project was conceived, formed and managed by the head of Heritage Concorde Steve de Sausmarez, who was also the lucky person to get the chance to carry out the first power-up of the aircraft on the 14th March 2011! Sadly the museum cancelled the project during September of 2011.
The team has now been disbanded and this will remain the last project that Heritage Concorde will be involved or associated with due to the actions of others following the conclusion of the project.
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