pippy Posted Tuesday at 09:56 AM Share #21 Posted Tuesday at 09:56 AM (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) 44 minutes ago, stuny said: They were exquisite, especially as shown here, in flight mode, rather then landing/takeoff. It is also wonderful to come across these elusive creatures when in their native habitat. I got a fleeting glimpse of one the other day deep in the wilds of Surrey; Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. Edited Tuesday at 10:18 AM by pippy Preferred Crop... 4 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/424742-the-most-beautiful-machine-ever-built-open-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5875755'>More sharing options...
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pippy Posted Tuesday at 10:23 AM Share #22 Posted Tuesday at 10:23 AM OK...here'a a more conventional view of the lovely lady; Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Both pics taken with M-D Typ-262, '74 35mm Summilux v2. Philip. 2 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Both pics taken with M-D Typ-262, '74 35mm Summilux v2. Philip. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/424742-the-most-beautiful-machine-ever-built-open-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5875762'>More sharing options...
jaapv Posted Tuesday at 02:22 PM Author Share #23 Posted Tuesday at 02:22 PM I’ll make this an open thread. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkassenkunde Posted Tuesday at 03:14 PM Share #24 Posted Tuesday at 03:14 PM Whenever I see pictures of this wonderful piece of technology I am reminded that the mother of a friend of me was on the flight from Paris with her newlywed husband. What a tragedy! The pictures from that day still give me the chills… 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted Tuesday at 03:21 PM Share #25 Posted Tuesday at 03:21 PM 57 minutes ago, jaapv said: I’ll make this an open thread. Apologies if my posting the engine image "opened things up". It wasn't my intention to take away from your image thread. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted Tuesday at 03:23 PM Share #26 Posted Tuesday at 03:23 PM On 10/12/2025 at 8:05 PM, pedaes said: I was on a coach on the M25 going to Heathrow as Concord took off over us, and the sight of her four engines glowing bright red is a memory for life, plus of course the noise! We are on a (very high) Heathrow flight path, and around the same time every evening the windows would rattle a little as she flew over. We used to live a lifetime ago in Battersea - Concorde over twice a day. The only plane ever that when you heard it you looked up at the sky to see it! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted Tuesday at 04:09 PM Author Share #27 Posted Tuesday at 04:09 PM Advertisement (gone after registration) 47 minutes ago, NigelG said: Apologies if my posting the engine image "opened things up". It wasn't my intention to take away from your image thread. Not at all The more the merrier. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenInTime Posted Tuesday at 04:32 PM Share #28 Posted Tuesday at 04:32 PM (edited) There are 18 total remaining airframes / locations to collect. Edited Tuesday at 04:33 PM by FrozenInTime 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted Tuesday at 11:23 PM Share #29 Posted Tuesday at 11:23 PM (edited) 6 hours ago, FrozenInTime said: There are 18 total remaining airframes / locations to collect. This article popped-up on my laptop not 15 minutes ago(!). Perhaps Big Brother really IS watching us?... All but one of the 20 Concordes are accounted for. Here’s what happened to the missing plane Philip. Edited Tuesday at 11:24 PM by pippy 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted Wednesday at 12:00 AM Share #30 Posted Wednesday at 12:00 AM (edited) 7 hours ago, jaapv said: Not at all The more the merrier. The Rabbit Holes I am now investigating as a result of this thread!......😸...... The livery / paint scheme of the 'Brooklands' Concorde had one feature which struck me as being rather odd at the time so...I googled. Interesting point of note! Here is the innocuous-seeming snap which resulted in the quizzical 'Roger-Moore-esque' eyebrow-raising moment. Spot the Anomaly?......😺......; Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! All is revealed here; https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-livery Philip. Edited Wednesday at 12:04 AM by pippy 2 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! All is revealed here; https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-livery Philip. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/424742-the-most-beautiful-machine-ever-built-open-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5876106'>More sharing options...
lykaman Posted Wednesday at 12:48 AM Share #31 Posted Wednesday at 12:48 AM Saw Concorde fly over Southend Essex 1986. Southend Air Show. WW11 historic flight, Harrier Vertical Take Off, plus a few other jet fighters, wonderful thunderous sounds & then Concorde.. 🕺 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenInTime Posted Wednesday at 06:25 AM Share #32 Posted Wednesday at 06:25 AM @pippy BritishAirways livery ( no Speedbird ) at East Foture Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 4 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/424742-the-most-beautiful-machine-ever-built-open-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5876170'>More sharing options...
NigelG Posted Wednesday at 06:46 AM Share #33 Posted Wednesday at 06:46 AM I’m not sure whether the anomaly is the BOAC Speedbird….or the use of a lowercase “a” for airways 🤔 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted Wednesday at 09:44 AM Share #34 Posted Wednesday at 09:44 AM (edited) 3 hours ago, FrozenInTime said: ....BritishAirways livery ( no Speedbird ) at East Fortune... 2 hours ago, NigelG said: I’m not sure whether the anomaly is the BOAC Speedbird….or the use of a lowercase “a” for airways 🤔 Yes; I was thinking about the inclusion of the BOAC 'Speedbird' graphic. When aircraft allocations were made after the decision had been taken to go ahead with the project BOAC were slated-down to receive six of them with an option for a further two. By the time the aircraft were ready for delivery the merger between BOAC and BEA had taken place and the 'new' client was British Airways. Subsequently, however, and as quoted in the 'Livery' link posted earlier; "As a result of pressure from BOAC employees, the 'Speedbird' that was part of BOAC’s identity was retained and put at the front of the planes." Every Day is a Schoolday... 8 hours ago, lykaman said: Saw Concorde fly over Southend Essex 1986. Southend Air Show. WW11 historic flight, Harrier Vertical Take Off, plus a few other jet fighters.. In my youth(?!) my parents, brother and myself all went - by bus! - from our home in Scotland's central-lowlands on a charter-trip-visit to Turnhouse Airport (now Edinburgh Airport) on (having just checked) the 23rd March 1980 when Concorde was scheduled to make her first 'commercial' landing in Scotland. The landing of an aircraft might seem a rather prosaic, humdrum event but, on that occasion, it was a very newsworthy story which saw a massive turn-out of spectators. Memorable! Fast-forward the late '90s I was living in Barnes (west London) which is on the flight path for Heathrow Airport. One quickly became accustomed to the noise of 'planes overhead with the sole exception of Concorde as it was SO loud. This was actually welcomed as, habitually, we would all go out into the garden just to watch her as she flew overhead. I doubt we shall ever see her likes again in the skies. East Fortune is a lovely little gem of a Museum. Well; not so very little considering it has a Vulcan Bomber on the premises...😸... For anyone who might be considering visiting the place I would heartily recommend that you do; fascinating collection! Philip. Edited Wednesday at 09:46 AM by pippy 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted Wednesday at 09:48 AM Share #35 Posted Wednesday at 09:48 AM Still puzzled about the lower case “a”…🧐 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenInTime Posted Wednesday at 10:37 AM Share #36 Posted Wednesday at 10:37 AM 48 minutes ago, pippy said: "As a result of pressure from BOAC employees, the 'Speedbird' that was part of BOAC’s identity was retained and put at the front of the planes." Every Day is a Schoolday... In my youth(?!) my parents, brother and myself all went - by bus! - from our home in Scotland's central-lowlands on a charter-trip-visit to Turnhouse Airport (now Edinburgh Airport) on (having just checked) the 23rd March 1980 when Concorde was scheduled to make her first 'commercial' landing in Scotland. The landing of an aircraft might seem a rather prosaic, humdrum event but, on that occasion, it was a very newsworthy story which saw a massive turn-out of spectators. Memorable! I was in that crowd ... standing to the North of the runway perimeter fence. I'm sure it is well known, BA still us the Speedbird callsign with air traffic control. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted Wednesday at 11:13 AM Share #37 Posted Wednesday at 11:13 AM (edited) 43 minutes ago, FrozenInTime said: I was in that crowd ... standing to the North of the runway perimeter fence. I'm sure it is well known, BA still us the Speedbird callsign with air traffic control. I was to the south! We probably saw each other!!!......😸...... Actually I, for one, didn't know that 'Speedbird' was still in use and, in fact, until reading about the liveries, didn't know the logo even had a name! As far as Nigel's comments regarding the lower case 'a' it might be down to the name-style logo which BA introduced in 1974 where the words were displayed top-and-bottom (rather than adjacent to one another) where the word (and, it follows, the Identity) 'British' is both large and positioned very much in pride-of-place' whereas the word (in a slighly smaller type-size) 'airways' - without an upper-case A - fits in very neatly underneath; Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Interestingly (and as seen once again in the Livery page) when Newell and Sorrell were given the task of refreshing the airways corporate design one aspect of their brief was to soften this sense of 'Britishness'. I quote; "This was an attempt rid themselves of a stuffy overly British image and become a truly worldwide airline." Co-incidentally by the time this re-branding was taking place one of my ex-classmates - and still to this day best friends - had been taken-on as the in-house photographer for Newell and Sorrell (I even did some shoots for them myself) and the stories about the discussion processes (i.e. arguments) surrounding, in the main, the "World Images" tail-fin treatment part of the project were extraordinary to put it mildly...just WOW!!!............ Philip. Edited Wednesday at 11:22 AM by pippy 3 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Interestingly (and as seen once again in the Livery page) when Newell and Sorrell were given the task of refreshing the airways corporate design one aspect of their brief was to soften this sense of 'Britishness'. I quote; "This was an attempt rid themselves of a stuffy overly British image and become a truly worldwide airline." Co-incidentally by the time this re-branding was taking place one of my ex-classmates - and still to this day best friends - had been taken-on as the in-house photographer for Newell and Sorrell (I even did some shoots for them myself) and the stories about the discussion processes (i.e. arguments) surrounding, in the main, the "World Images" tail-fin treatment part of the project were extraordinary to put it mildly...just WOW!!!............ Philip. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/424742-the-most-beautiful-machine-ever-built-open-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5876291'>More sharing options...
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