passy777

Here's another one taken last year.

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gms

The satellite imagery you see in Google Maps can be several years old. It is certainly not updated daily! The images in use at the moment for Heathrow were taken on 6 April 2015.

JAXBA

Quote:

Originally Posted by where2travel

..one thing I always wonder is why there's the South African Airways aircraft parked right next to the Concorde? What's that doing there (assuming it's the same one each time)?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jagboi

I assume BA has the contract to maintenance for SAA.

I'm pretty sure that's it - if not maintenance then at least parking for the SA aircraft that come in from JNB before they turnaround and go back that night. The aircraft used to park outside/next to the BD hangar by the former level crossing (the white square closer to the top of Google pictures above) but since BD became BA, SA use a BA stand.

Scots_Al

Indeed - and only a few minutes' walk from check-in: a far better way to wait for your flight than normal!

A bit closer to home, there's also one at the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian.

Heathrow Tower

JAXBA is correct, it's remote parking for South African.

where2travel

Thanks for clarifying. I thought it always seemed a slightly odd place to park an aircraft temporarily that I assumed it was the same one that had been put there semi-permanently for some reason.

Heathrow Tower

I'd be quite happy for those stands to be gone.....it's quite a headache trying to get aircraft out of those stands when 27L is being used for departures.

oenophilist

There are 18 remaining Concordes in existence, throughout the world.

You can find them:

Le Bourget, France (2)
Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, UK
Imperial War Museum, Cambridgeshire, UK
Musee Delta, Orly, France
Aerospatiale, Toulouse, France (2)
Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, UK
Manchester, UK
Smithsonian, Washington DC, USA
Museum of Flight, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sinsheim Museum, Germany
Heathrow
Intrepid Museum, NY, NY, USA
Barbados
Museum of Flight, Seattle, USA
Paris CDG, France
Filton, Bristol, UK

The remains of the Concorde that crashed (F-BTSC) as well as the Concorde that was scrapped (F-BVFD) are also at Le Bourget, not accessible to the public for obvious reasons.

Here is a wonderful virtual visit of the Concorde near Orly:

http://www.lekorbo.be/citysphere/mus...virtuelle.html

Gaza

The Museum of Flight is at East Fortune which is about 25 miles east of Edinburgh. It isn't readily accessible by public transport.

oenophilist

Yes, that is correct, it is close to Haddington. I visited the museum last week actually, it's about 45 minutes from Edinburgh to Haddington by bus, then a 10 minute taxi ride to the museum. Buses stop at the museum in the summer but not often.

Here is a picture of her:

mikeyfly

The old Heathrow Concorde this morning

JAXBA

Ahh, the LHR Concorde model. I remember it well.

As a teenager, I cycled 20+ miles in June 1997 to visit LHR on the day of the Utopia livery unveiling, and the repainted Concorde model was the first thing I got to see.

woggledog

Taken yesterday whilst crossing 27L en route to the ghetto / T4

Where it's been for quite some time!

Lucanesque

Taken yesterday as we were coming in to land on 27L:



(apologies for the filter, can't find the original un-Instagrammed!)

cgtechuk

Hi All,

I know this was mentioned in the past but I seen it on my recent flight from LHR to GLA. It was a bit unexpected to see it there as I have not seen it parked up in the past.

Does anyone know what the future for this plane is ? I believe it to be G - BOAB but do not quote me on that. I couldn't get the camera out any quicker I am afraid.

I had read when I googled it on this forum that the plan was to put it inside T5 when it was finished but well that was years ago.