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HERITAGE CONCORDE NEWS UPDATES
News updates regarding the remaining 18 Concorde airframes
THE PLAN FOR A NEW FILTON HOME FOR CONCORDE ALPHA FOXTROT
Concorde is a heritage icon, symbolising ambition, innovation, collaboration and technological achievement. This lick will detail the plans of “The Concorde Trust”, just one of the plans which hopes to deliver an accessible, sustainable home for the UK’s most significant Concorde at her birthplace. They plan to use Concorde’s appeal to draw wide audiences to the region’s unique aviation heritage and provide an inspirational learning experience for current and future generations, click on this link for further details.
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
CONCORDE TYPE CERTIFICATE & AIRWORTHINESS
What is a Type Certificate, we hear so much about it these days, with regard to returning Concorde to the skies. The aircraft required one to operate as a passenger airliner. Concorde did and would be required to conform to this type Certificate (TC) again if it returned to our skies in a heritage role. I have decided to write this section to try and make the whole situation clearer.
THE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY & CONCORDE RTF
Would the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) support a return to flight for Concorde in heritage flight role?
VISIT CONCORDE
Concorde is sadly no longer flying, but it is still possible for us to visit some of the remaining eighteen airframes around. You can expect to visit every type of Concorde airframe, from Prototypes through to Production airliner Concordes.
SEE CONCORDE IN THE BIG APPLE
Visit and enjoy the best Concorde tours in the USA
CONCORDE PRODUCTION & CONSTRUCTION
The construction of Concorde was one of the most complex operations ever undertaken in the aircraft industry. It also represented the first and most important step towards a European aircraft industry, the formation of Airbus.
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 on some days 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 Heritage Concorde.
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.
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.
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The Concorde Experience app
Now you can download your very own Concorde experience to your iPhone, iPad or Android Phone!
Hear what it was like to fly Concorde from former pilot Captain Jock Reid as he gives you an audio tour of the aircraft inside and out, and find out what it was like to be a passenger aboard one of these magnificent airplanes first hand.
Accompanied by over fifty photographs and sixteen audio tracks, and packed with useful facts and technical data, The Concorde Experience is a must for any enthusiast or plane lover. There’s also information on visiting Concorde at the National Museum of Flight, and photographs of the plane’s journey to East Fortune.
The Concorde Experience app is free for iPhone and Android phones and costs 59p/99c for the iPad version.
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