[HN Gopher] The Only Photo of the Concorde Flying at Supersonic ...
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       The Only Photo of the Concorde Flying at Supersonic Speed
        
       Author : alex_young
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2025-01-26 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | hinkley wrote:
       | Somewhere an SR-71 pilot is definitely rolling his eyes.
       | 
       | Only publicity photo, surely.
        
       | zeristor wrote:
       | I remember at school at lunch time we'd see a Concorde fly
       | overhead, just sort of got used to it.
        
         | rwmj wrote:
         | Concorde used to fly over our house (landing at Manchester
         | airport, I think?), and it was something of an event for our
         | household of plane geeks, but happened fairly regularly.
         | 
         | These days I see Airbus A380s taking off and landing from
         | Heathrow over the house almost daily and that never ceases to
         | amaze me, mainly that humans built something so enormous that
         | can actually fly.
        
         | timthorn wrote:
         | It marked the end of playtime at our school. We were 30 miles
         | west of Heathrow and as it went overhead, still climbing from
         | takeoff, it would have interrupted lessons.
         | 
         | It was usually pretty punctual, but every now and then we got
         | an extended break.
        
         | elpocko wrote:
         | I hope only the kids got used to the mindblowing event of
         | seeing an airplane in the sky, and the teachers kept running
         | away, screaming in panic every day even after 10 years of it
         | happening.
        
       | jstanley wrote:
       | You can go and see a Concorde at Bristol Aerospace Museum[0], and
       | walk inside it.
       | 
       | There is an absolutely bewildering array of dials and switches
       | exposed to the pilots[1].
       | 
       | And they have lots of other aviation stuff at the museum, it's
       | not just Concorde. Other highlights include some very early
       | planes, cut-away jet engines, and a cut-away section of a jumbo
       | jet fuselage, so you can see the locations of pipes, tubes,
       | cargo, etc. in relation to the seats. It is well worth a visit if
       | you're nearby.
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       | [0] https://aerospacebristol.org/
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       | [1] https://i.redd.it/0vqv9qlx98m31.jpg
        
         | pchristensen wrote:
         | There is also one at the Museum of Flight in Seattle -
         | https://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and-events/aircraft/...
         | 
         | It looks like it would have been a very snug ride!
        
       | neilv wrote:
       | Circa 2000, British Airways(?) did a competition for technical
       | people/students, and the prize was... to get to fly on the
       | Concorde. I remember thinking "big whoop", and didn't enter. Not
       | knowing that the Concorde would soon never fly again.
        
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