Concorde G-BBDG at Brooklands?
 

I was at the preview of the Concorde charity auction run by Bonhams at Olympia on Saturday afternoon and had a chat to one of the Concorde engineering chiefs there (Daniel Matthews?). Someone else joined us and and him some questions of what was happening to 'the eigth Concorde' (G-BBDG).

As many of you know, this aircraft is currently stored at Filton in a deplorable state.

http://www.filton.flyer.co.uk/gbbdg.html

Engineering chap was very coy and when pushed admitted that it would be brought back up to scratch and 'might indeed end up at a museum in the south-east'.

Ask if this might be Brooklands, he said "well, I'm not promising anything but you'll see some press about it fairly soon. I'm in charge of getting it done."

Brooklands...a logical choice?

Also, I was surprised how few people were there. The display area was pretty small and 20 minutes would have been enough to take it all in.

I thought it was all pretty sad, really. A bit like being raped and pillaged.

I went too, on Saturday. Very hungover and weary after beoing at Turnmills until 5am and then trekking across the Tube network with numerous cricket bags, suitcases and shopping bags.

The viewing was much smaller than I expected and when I was there a BA Concorde pilot was there, can't recall his name although I was sitting down on the seats you could try when the pilot came over and asked what I thought of the seats. Strangely he knew less about the items in the sale than I did! He thought that despite all the Concordes that went to museums fully intact, the seats for sale had flying experience, yet BA ordered 8 plane loads of seats.

Was he a bit short and stocky, with short black hair?

I think his name was Paul Douglas or something similar. I had a brief chat with him and he said he was flying Alpha Foxtrot on 24 October, the 'round the Bay flight.

Why on earth did you go to Turnmills on Friday night when Fatboy Slim was playing there Saturday ? Madness.

I didnt realise until we got in there and were told, although I couldn't have gone because my girlfriend was flying back to Washington on Sunday and we had to get home and pack her stuff for the flight back.

Tall Paul, Darren Christian, Red Jerry and Benny Benassi still made it a pretty d http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/thumbsup.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/thumbsup.gifn good night! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

It was a short, stocky chap although I didn't recognise the name, nor remember the name on the badge http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/confused.gif

So what happened at the auction?

Lot Description Hammer Price
1 A Marilake Instruments Ltd Mach Visual Display Unit £10,000
2 A B.A.C. Air Intake Test Panel Built In Test Equipment, £2,500
3 A Rosemount Aerospace Inc. Fuselage Main Pitot Head, £4,000
4 An E.C.E. Flying Control Lane Selector Panel. £2,500
5 An Elliott Pitch Datum Adjust Trim Unit, Type 20-002-04. £3,500
6 A Normalair-Garrett Cabin Pressurisation Selector, (2) £3,500
7 A Smiths C.S.D. Oil Temperature Indicator, (2) £2,500
8 A Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Ltd. Mass Flow Indicator,(3) £3,000
9 A Rosemount Total Temperature Sensor, £2,200
10 Four Lucas Aerospace Ltd E.L. Panels , (4) £800
11 A British Aircraft Corp. A.I.C.S. Manual Control Panel, 66-076-466-00, £2,500
12 A Teledyne Systems Co. Incidence Vane, or Angle of Attack Indicator, £700
13 A Jaeger Fuel Tank Pressure Indicator, (2) £5,500
14 A Crouzet Numerical Triple Temperature Indicator (2) £2,800
15 A Smiths Fuel Flow Rate Indicator, (2) £1,800
16 A Capacity Indicator £1,100
17 An Elliott I.T.E.M.Control Unit £1,000
18 A Refuel Panel Tank Pressure Relief Valve Selector Gauge, (3) £1,700
19 A Contents Indicator, (2) £1,800
20 A Smiths Industries Ltd. Exhaust Gas Temperature Indicator £1,800
21 A Kollsman Rate of Climb Indicator, (2) £2,200
22 An Elliott Mach Number Indicator, (4) £4,200
23 A Fairchild Cockpit Voice Recorder Control Unit, (2) £3,500
24 A Dowty Electrics Ltd. Visor and Droopnose Selector Switch, £6,000
25 An Ice Detector Head, (2) £1,600
26 An Ice Detector Head, (2) £1,600
27 A Sideslip Indicator (3) £2,800
28 An Intertechnique Tank Contents Indicator, (2) £1,900
29 A Jaeger Fuel Pressure Indicator, (3) £2,800
31 Two Smiths Twin Pointer Fuel Temperature Indicators, (3) £2,800
32 A Jaeger Hydraulic Quantity Indicator, £1,400
33 A British Aircraft Coporation Air Intake Test Panel Built in Test Equipment £2,200
34 A S.F.E.N.A. A.D.I. Indicator, £14,000
35 A Crouzet Incidence and Acceleration Indicator, (4) £1,600
36 A Dowty Visor and Droopnose Selector Switch, £6,000
37 A Jaeger Altimeter Indicator, (2) £3,500
38 An A1.D.C. Airspeed Indicator, £3,200
39 An Intertechnique Tank Contents Indicator (2) £2,200
40 A Davall Radiation Indicator, £5,000
41 Twelve Napkins and Rings, (25) £2,000
42 A H.S.I. Heading Indicator, £2,500
43 A B.A.C. Air Intake Management Panel, £2,200
44 A Jaeger Standbt Air Speed Indicator, £3,200
45 A Jaeger Brake Temperature Selector, (2) £1,600
46 A Jaeger Machmeter, £28,000
47 A Davall Radiation Indicator, Serial No. 2003, Type No. 1293, £8,000
48 An Ionisation Detector £1,600
49 An E.C.E. Ground Check Out Pump Selector Panel, (2) £2,200
50 A Dowty Electrics Ltd. Visor and Droopnose Selector Switch, £6,500
51 A Center of Gravity Indicator and a Side Slip Indicator (2) £2,200
52 A Tail Cone Navigational Lamp, £4,000
53 A Normalair-Garrett Cabin Pressurisation Selector, £1,200
54 A E.C.E. Landing Gear Selector, (2) £1,700
55 A Jaeger Air Speed Indicator, £3,000
56 A British Aircraft Corp. A.I.C.S. Manual Control Panel, £2,000
57 An Intertechnique Fuel Quantity Control Panel, (3) £2,000
58 An E.C.E. Fyling Control Lane Selector Panel, £2,800
59 A Twelve Place Settings Cutlery Set, (48) £3,200
60 A Wedgwood “Atlas” Ashtray, (2) £1,400
61 A Kid Leather Document and Credit Card Holder Set, (2) £500
62 A Kid Leather Document and Credit Card Holder Set, (2) £600
63 A Smythson’s Cellar Notebook, (2) £500
64 A Smythson’s Cellar Notebook, (2) £400
65 A Passenger Rug, (2) £1,200
66 Six Sets of Salt and Pepper Mills, £700
67 A Set of Five Cross Pens, (5) £1,500
68 Concorde Printed Ephemera, (19) £1,900
69 A Royal Doulton Twelve Place Dinner Service, (120) £3,200
70 A Case of Wine as Served On Board Concorde, (12) £1,600
71 A Leather Wine Carrier, for three bottles, £1,000
72 A Set of Five Cross Pens, (5) £1,800
73 Glasses for Twelve Place Settings, (36) £1,200
74 A Wedgwood Domed Ceramic Paperweight, (2) £1,600
75 A Wedgwood Domed Ceramic Paperweight,(2) £1,800
76 A Smythson’s Stationery Set,(4) £900
77 A Wedgwood “Atlas” Ashtray, (2) £1,000
78 A Smythson’s Stationery Set, (4) £700
79 A Pair of Passenger Seats, £7,500
80 A Pair of Passenger Seats, £10,000
81 A Cabin Bulkhead, £1,600
82 A Driessen Double Cabin Trolley, £5,500
83 A Flight Attendant’s Takeoff and Landing Seat, £3,500
84 A Driessen Single Cabin Trolley, £5,000
85 A Stage 1, High Pressure Compressor Disc, £3,000
86 A Teleflex Landing Light, £2,500
87 A Main Engine Exhaust Gas Temperature Thermocouple £600
88 A Variable Exhaust 'Bucket' or 'Clam Shell', £9,000
89 A Teledyne Controls Incidence Vane or, Angle of Attack Vane, £1,800
90 A Starec Antenna, £700
91 Two Radio Altimeter Antennae, (2) £600
92 An Air Intake Upper Lip, £1,800
93 An Air Intake Upper Lip, £1,200
94 A Dunlop Tail Wheel, £3,800
95 A VOR/LOC Antenna, £2,800
96 A Vicker’s Emergency Hydraulic Ram Air Turbine, £2,500
97 A Nose Undercarriage Steering Actuator or Jack, £2,000
98 A Visor Panel, £1,600
99 A Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane, £800
100 A Single Turbine Blade, £1,400
101 A Single Turbine Blade, £2,000
102 A Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane, (1) £1,400
103 A Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane, (1) £1,200
104 A Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane, £1,300
105 A Concorde Radome, £320,000
106 A Concorde Tail Cone, £28,000
107 A Fuel Tank Pressure Relief Valve £700
108 A Reheat Fuel Injection Assembly, £2,500
109 A Teddington Aircraft Controls 4-Inch Butterfly Valve £500
110 A Fuel Tank Pressure Relief Valve, £1,300
111 A Machined Steel Sprung Engine Door Vent, (4) £1,400
112 A Rosemount Outboard Water Drain Mast, £2,000
113 A Main Engine Exhaust Gas Temperature Thermocouple £1,000
114 A Variable Exhaust “Bucket” or “Clam Shell”, £2,800
115 A Rosemount Aerospace Inc. Nose Mounted Stainless Steel and Nickel Standby Pitot Probe, £19,000
116 A Delta Wing Leading Edge, £7,000
117 A Lower Rudder £6,000
118 A No. 1 Elevon, £3,500
119 An Air Intake Hydraulic Ramp, £2,100
120 A Concorde Captain's Seat, £26,000
121 A Stage 6, High Pressure Compressor Disc with Blades Fitted,, £3,200
122 A Grimes Mfg. Co. Anti Collision lamp, £1,800
123 Four Window panel surrounds, (6) £1,200
124 A Grimes Mfg. Co. Anti Collision lamp, £1,700
125 A Tail Cone Navigation Lamp, £3,800
126 Finale Material from the Last Commercial Flight of Concorde, 24th October 2003, (qty) £5,500
127 Finale Material from the Last Commercial Flight of Concorde, 24th October 2003, (qty) £3,500
128 A Commemorative 1:100 Scale Model of Concorde, £17,000