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Old Apr 6, 2018 | 1:10 am
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Originally Posted by sjrk1
Ohh...that is harsh!
Yup - My mother laughed about it when I got older, I didn't see the funny side

Originally Posted by beergut
Only pic I could find was the one with the cap previously mentioned.

Flew it once about 20 years ago on one of the charter flights from EXT over the Bay of Biscay and back again, wasn't cheap at around £600 each and I had to take the Girlfriend at the time as well ! Access to EXT was pretty dire and the road used to get jammed with people just turning out to watch it.
Great pic - thanks!

Originally Posted by beergut
We used to get the double Sonic boom here in South Devon, quite often powerful enough to rattle windows.
When I was very young in the early 70s we moved out of London to a tiny village near Exeter airport, I remember seeing Concorde both there and also the regular sonic booms that used to happen (presumably as it was en route to JFK)
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