Where is the Heathrow Concorde?
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Where is the Heathrow Concorde?
Hello everyone,
My understanding is there is still a Concorde at Heathrow, somewhere near the 27L runway. Does anyone know if it is still there? I have tried looking via GoogleMaps, no luck at least not as of today, 18FEB2016. I found that green odd looking mash-up of a 747-DC10 [guess its a fire training plane or something] but no Concorde. After some on line searching, it appears to have moved in/near a maintenance hanger then back to the end of the runway, but I still can't find it.
Here's the real question, I will have an overnight in Heathrow staying at the T4 Hilton and my ongoing flight leaves at 2p, so I have plenty of time in the morning to go look for it. Would the Concorde (wherever it is today) be visible from either the Perimeter Road or A30? There appears to be a sidewalk along the A30, so if the Concorde is where it was, would it be visible? If it is somewhere else, could I take an uber or similar to get to it?
Thanks for your thoughts!
My understanding is there is still a Concorde at Heathrow, somewhere near the 27L runway. Does anyone know if it is still there? I have tried looking via GoogleMaps, no luck at least not as of today, 18FEB2016. I found that green odd looking mash-up of a 747-DC10 [guess its a fire training plane or something] but no Concorde. After some on line searching, it appears to have moved in/near a maintenance hanger then back to the end of the runway, but I still can't find it.
Here's the real question, I will have an overnight in Heathrow staying at the T4 Hilton and my ongoing flight leaves at 2p, so I have plenty of time in the morning to go look for it. Would the Concorde (wherever it is today) be visible from either the Perimeter Road or A30? There appears to be a sidewalk along the A30, so if the Concorde is where it was, would it be visible? If it is somewhere else, could I take an uber or similar to get to it?
Thanks for your thoughts!
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Where is the Heathrow Concorde?
It was near the threshold of 27L a few weeks ago when I was there. It generally stays there but is sometimes moved to the engineering hangar.
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Where is the Heathrow Concorde?
It is well within the airfield perimeter so not accessible to the public.
If you want to see a Concorde up close in the UK there is one at the MAN spectator park which you can tour.
If you want to see a Concorde up close in the UK there is one at the MAN spectator park which you can tour.
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I don't think you'll get a good view from the public areas, I'm sorry to report. The very best view is on the starboard side coming into 27L. The other place you can (normally) see her is from the Hilton Garden Inn at Hatton Cross. If you checkin online, and ideally have a bit of status with Hilton, then you can select the rooms that overlook this area, you need to be on the top 2 floors (7 and 8 from memory).
And again from memory, this was roughly where she was yesterday.
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And again from memory, this was roughly where she was yesterday.
update: see below
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I don't think you'll get a good view from the public areas, I'm sorry to report. The very best view is on the starboard side coming into 27L. The other place you can (normally) see her is from the Hilton Garden Inn at Hatton Cross. If you checkin online, and ideally have a bit of status with Hilton, then you can select the rooms that overlook this area, you need to be on the top 2 floors (7 and 8 from memory).
And again from memory, this was roughly where she was yesterday.
And again from memory, this was roughly where she was yesterday.
Concorde spent some time in the hangar, as a few posters mentioned, during Christmas as she got new ballast in the fuselage, and a general check against corrosion and so on.
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I don't suppose that faux Concorde is still located on the main roadway into LHR as it had been for decades?
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Thank you 13900, is this nearer the mark? I can vaguely detect a shadow on the tarmac from her wings.
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There are other lounges and better ones than Hilton T4 (and as Gold it's not guaranteed?). The HGI is vastly easier to get to, even for T4 users! But the right rooms from the HGI do give excellent views of landing aircraft. You want the rooms overlooking but to the left of the oval-ish conference centre on the Hilton OLCI map for arriving aircraft. You want the overside, top side of the S, for apron (ramp) watching.
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The faux Concorde now sits (painted in retro livery) on the roundabout outside Mercedes Benz world, Brooklands. It's looks great lit up at night
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Hello Shareholder, hope you are well? The British Concorde's were built at (and first flown from) Filton which is a suburb of the city of Bristol. However a great deal of the design work was carried out at Weybridge, and it was the UK program HQ.