Gonzalo From Chile, joined Aug 2005, 1690 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 12250 times:
Hello All... After watching this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74zgfYYvUds ) of the Concorde landing in Boston ( probably a weather diversion from JFK ), I started to travel in time, to the days when I was a child and the Concorde landed in Montevideo, for an official visit of F. Miterrand ( France's President at the time ). It was in 1987 ( can't remember the exact date....I was sooooo excited with the Concorde landing in MVD !! ) . With this in mind, I would like to know the other destinations visited just one or two times for this magnificent plane. If you can remember when ( and even why ) the Concorde landed there, much better !!
Mortyman From Norway, joined Aug 2006, 3237 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (3 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 12255 times:
The Concorde visited both Oslo and Stavanger in Norway. It visited Stavanger atleast twice with cruiseshippassangers. One year there were 3 Concorde's visiting Sola Airport Stavanger in one day.
LondonCity From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2008, 1214 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (3 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 12240 times:
Throughout its life, Concorde operated many charter services.
But some of the most unusual examples are in the days when BA used Concorde on domestic routes to promote its Super Shuttle Services. Here's an historical picture of three BA Concordes at GLA way back in 1983.
CitationJet From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 2249 posts, RR: 3 Reply 5, posted (3 months 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 12114 times:
This website documents many Concorde destinations on charter. I know for a fact that there are some cities in the US missing. I toured the Concorde in ICT when it visited for a charter flight.
WOW !!!! I was totally WRONG with my previous "knowledge" about this !!! The number of places where the Concorde actually landed is probably 10 times higher than what I had in mind !!!!
n901wa From United States of America, joined Oct 2009, 389 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (3 months 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 11353 times:
Here's a Pic from the Concorde in HNL. The Air France Flight would arrive once a year, on the round the world charter. I was lucky to help turn it in HNL in 1988.
Quoting Speedbird128 (Reply 15): BA operated CPT-JNB circa 2000 when the then new BMW 3 Series was launched - all the executives of the South African suppliers were sent on a joyride.
It was there doing these joy rides for about 7 days , but I think you will find it was during March 1992
Wingtips56 From United States of America, joined Dec 2010, 217 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (3 months 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 10775 times:
Quoting CitationJet (Reply 5):
This website documents many Concorde destinations on charter. I know for a fact that there are some cities in the US missing. I toured the Concorde in ICT when it visited for a charter flight.
Yes, "The Americas" list is incomplete from mid-letter "R" on. I toured the AF SSC when it was in Sacramento on a grand tour. Surprised at how small it was inside. I forget where it arrived from, but it flew from SMF to JFK, having to move it's departure time up at least an hour, as the forecast temperature for the original schedule would have been too hot for it to lift off. As it was, it used every inch of the then-new 16L runway. Since SMF wasn't/isn't an AF station, catering was trucked up from SFO.
Worked for WestAir, Apollo Airways, Desert Pacific, Western, AirCal and American Airlines
26point2 From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 688 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (3 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 10606 times:
Fun thread. I love anything Concorde.
The SXM photo looks like a fake to me. Not only because I have never seen this pic or any other like it (have you?) but the people are clearly not wearing 1989 era swim suits. I suppose the caption could be wrong.
To add to the list...I have seen Concorde in PHKO and KOAK during its round-the-world charters.
Is Anet member MadamConcorde still around? She would know a lot more.
I do not recall those hangars behind in MVD - those are way bigger (747 type hangar) than anything on the premises there. Considering that picture is from 1987 and the one I am showing here is from the past 5-8 years, I am confused.
"Unattended children will be given espresso and a free kitten"
BenSandilands From Australia, joined Mar 2013, 64 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (3 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 9832 times:
Some of these Concorde charters visited Australia.
One of the first if not the first, following the demo flights of the mid '70s, was in 1984 to coincide with an exchange of passengers to or from the QE2. The day it arrived also coincided with a Papal visit to Sydney, and the combination of thousands of the faithful, thousands of aviation tragics, and anyone unfortunate enough to just be coming or going through Sydney Airport that day made for bedlam.
Australia had two designated over land routes for Concorde flights. One, which I believe was only used once for a demo flight from Melbourne to Singapore, tracked out of Tullamarine and out to sea and supersonic to go around Kangaroo Island which is somewhat south of Adelaide, and then fly more or less diagonally SE to NW across the country. The route was right at the edge of Concorde's range even with a reduced payload but according to the Australian DCA as it then was, there were only nine people known to actually live under the boom path.
The other route was from Denpasar to Sydney. Concorde was permitted to fly supersonic until it reached western NSW when it was to drop into subsonic descent and approach to the airport. However on the first and last time that route was used the crew of the AF charter remained in supersonic flight for a few minutes longer than allowed and passed directly over a small town called Cowra. There was superficial damage to some structures, with broken windows and collapsed outbuildings, and a horse that bolted in panic in an enclosure and tried to jump a fence broke a leg and had to be shot.
The incident caused the denial of the route to future charters.
AF was also briefly banned from operating Concorde out of Sydney when the same aircraft disobeyed tower instructions on departure from Sydney which required take off to the south over Botany Bay. It took off to the north, passing over the inner western suburbs including on that memorable afternoon my home and as Sydney Airport later said, caused the switch board to jam with calls of protest.
One of the last visits by Concorde was that of a BA charter which included a Christchurch-Sydney sector. I was surfing Voodoo near Boat Harbour, a minor inlet which has a reef break way to the NE of Wanda Beach near Cronulla. I watched Concorde make a turn to line up for the approach toward Botany Bay and 'something' didn't look right. As the jet, nose visor lowered soared almost overhead I could see that there was a gap in the vertical rudder, a delamination event that was was heard and felt inside the cabin after departure from Christchurch but the crew elected to continue the sector.
There was a subsequent report from the UK that BA had taken action against the captain for carrying on and assuming that the abnormal indications heard and felt on the jet were not a safety of flight issue. Not sure if he was fired, demoted or retrained.
To the best of my recollection, the Cowra and Sydney takeoff incident occurred late in the 80s but the BA delamination incident was probably in the early 90s.
Was that flight subsonic ?? I'm asking because, IIRC, the sonic boom was the main factor for the Concorde being banned in almost every potential route and as a consequence they were allowed to fly supersonic only over the oceans ....
Quoting 26point2 (Reply 18): Is Anet member MadamConcorde still around?
Take a look at her user profile... I guess she will be back, but I don't know when.
Quoting dcajet (Reply 20):
Are you sure that picture is in MVD?
I do not recall those hangars behind in MVD - those are way bigger (747 type hangar) than anything on the premises there. Considering that picture is from 1987 and the one I am showing here is from the past 5-8 years, I am confused.
I can't be 100 % sure, since I was a kid those days and I leave the country a few years later. But the photo you posted shows the new terminal building, that is only a few years old, and in 1987 definitely there were different things in that particular place ( maybe the hangars in the picture were there in 1987 ? ).
scutfarcus From United States of America, joined May 2000, 357 posts, RR: 1 Reply 24, posted (3 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 9560 times:
My Favorite (and most notorious) of these is if course the numerous times Mobuto Sese Seko chartered to Concorde for ridiculous reasons like taking his wife shopping in Paris. Absolutely horrible person - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko
25 Wingtips56: Yes, it was subsonic. Not sure if that used more or less fuel, but the sucker was heavy, and they sure made a lot of noise hauling it off the ground
26 dcajet: I can tell you that picture is not in MVD. Carrasco never had those hangars - those are wide body plane hangars. There was never such a thing in MVD.
27 Gonzalo: Probably will not help too much, since I just noted the person who uploaded the picture was banned from the site ( probably not a reliable source ).
28 KDTWflyer: I remember seeing the Concorde here in Detroit in 1999 I think it was. It was charted by the Nomads travel group which is now defunct but I remember b
29 chrisjake: Here are a series of photos from Concorde's visit to Cleveland back in 1985 http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=concorde+CLE&w=67502491%40N02&z=e
30 IMissPiedmont: Both BA and AF brought a Concorde to Tucson in the mid 1990s. The AF one got a broken nose gear strut when someone on the tug made an error, blocked t
31 Oshkosh1: Stopped here in Oshkosh three times I believe... I had tickets to fly on it for the hour "joy-ride" @$700, but it was grounded about a week prior(2000
32 RWA380: Indeed a sub sonic flight. There were similar flights JFK-PDX a couple of times, one was tied in with the Oregon Symphony.
33 Airman99o: YYT back a few years ago. Air France Charter for the Iceberg industry investment. Was amazing to see her blast out of YYT full afterburner what a soun
34 skywaymanaz: Concorde visited many American cities in a promotion with Braniff. They didn't operate for Braniff very long though. I was scheduled on a TWA flight P
35 goldorak: I had exactly the same feeling when I saw this picture and was sure it was not taken in MVD. It is either in TLS or in CDG.
36 aklrno: It made it to Reno, Nevada too. I wasn't there, but it must have used a lot of fuel taking off from a field elevation of 4400 feet.
37 FlyingAY: Concordes were very frequent visitors to Finland's small northern airports (IVL, RVN, KTT) for "Santa Claus tourism". Never saw it personally, but the
38 edina: There were frequent visits to LPL for the Grand National.....more details here... http://www.nwan.co.uk/concorde.html
39 sierra3tango: It made a unscheduled visit to Bahrain (long after scheduled services finished) in Jan 96 to 'commemorate' the first BA (or was it BOAC) scheduled fli
40 oly720man: Photo is at CDG following the fuel tank refits after the loss of F-BTSC in 2000. http://www.concordesst.com/returntoflight/rts/chapter5.html http://w
41 uta999: Back when I was 11 in Fort Lamy, (now N'Djamena) Chad for the summer of 1973, Concorde 001 was chasing a solar eclipse across Africa. We stood by the
43 CairnterriAIR: BDL saw quite a few Concorde flights over the years, mostly diversions from JFK due to weather or air traffic. There may have been a few charter opera
44 Scooter01: Found a video here of a visit to OSL, Oct. 10.98, to help celebrate the "new" airport, now located at ENGM. I had just sat down for an afternoon snack
45 usscvr: Yes, Braniff started their promotional tour in December of 1978. I remember it well. My mother actually got me out of school to watch it come it to M
46 pnwtraveler: As a kid I loved it when the annual charters would come to Toronto. I think they were polar flights. With fuzzy recollection I think I remember a non-
47 planespotting: While I wasn't going on the joy ride, I was also planning on seeing the Concorde that week at Oshkosh! I was in high school and visiting my grandpare
48 PITrules: Another neat metric to discuss is how many non-scheduled Concorde destinations had simultaneous Concorde arrivals on parallel runways. In North Americ
49 zippyjet: With that shuttle was the HSCT bird able to let it all out and go hypersonic?
50 Speedbird128: For this BMW charter I mention, it could not have been 1992, as I was just finishing school at that time.
52 Bellerophon: Oshkosh1 ...in Oshkosh three times I believe...I had tickets to fly on it for the hour "joy-ride" @$700, but it was grounded about a week prior(2000)
53 IMissPiedmont: MCO sure did. I, along with 50 % of Orange County, drove down that day.[Edited 2013-03-19 18:27:47]
54 jcavinato: BA's sales department had it come into Harrisburg, Pennsylvania once to do a marketing splash for the heads of travel agencies around that region. I m
55 okAY: Indeed. The Santa flights were one of the rare occasions that would bring Concordes of both BA and AF to the same airport at the same time. There are
56 N501US: Charleston SC as 1991 European Ryder Cup team charter......intersting recollection by David Feherty in this link.. http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/q
57 LH422: I remember one coming to STR in the late 90s, though it's not on the list.
58 HBGDS: I know there was a mention of visits to Switzerland in an earlier string, but incomplete. Here's a more complete one, though some info is still missin
59 shamrock604: Shannon was in fact a regular stop on winter season charter flights from LHR en route to Barbados, where a tech stop would be made at Shannon to upli
60 flflyer: Yes in 1982, the BA and AF Concordes arrived at the same time and touched down almost to the second at the same time. I was on the roof of the DL wing
61 AddictedMAN: I flew MAN-YYZ on 10th September 1997. Flight number BA99 operated by G-BOAG. Best 4 hours of my life!
62 PZ707: Some charters also took them to Foz do Iguazu, Brazil and Ushuaia, Argentina. There are some pictures out there.
63 baileyncreme: I saw the Concorde fly into Portland International Airport (KPDX) back in the summer of 89. NE Marine Drive was clogged the entire weekend as people d
64 VV701: Yes. On 12 January 1979 BA Concorde G-N84AE (previously and subsequently registered G=BOAE) temporarily reregistered made a parallel approach at DFW
65 Viscount724: I don't see YVR mentioned anywhere in the destinations list. I watched a BA Concorde land at YVR in August 1986. It was appearing that weekend at the
66 yvrsr: I remember seeing the Concorde flying around Vancouver in1986. I think it came to town as part of Expo 86. It might have the same time you mention ab
67 geardown: Came to Papeete, Tahiti couple times for some round-the-world charter probably.
68 Marcus: Brown FIeld Municipal Airport south of SAN during the summer of 1988 for "Air Space America 88"....there was also a An-124.[Edited 2013-03-20 14:28:02
69 GDB: Only in the early days of the BGI operation. Later refinements in flight planning allowed a non stop service from LHR-BGI. In my time on the fleet, 1
70 SmithAir747: Sometime in the summer of 1999, as I remember, Concorde was supposed to arrive at FWA (my hometown airport) for a charter in conjunction with a Cunard
71 RWA380: This day I was departing PDX to HNL via SFO on UA. I was in F. The concourse was packed with press, (I was trying to sneak out of town for the weeken
72 DeltaRules: BA sent Concorde to CMH in 1985 and once a year from 1995-97. I know for a fact the July 1995 trip was heavily promoted as a USAir/British Airways par
73 jayhup: And I was probably the person who gave you that tour...
74 AR385: Just curious. How exactly does an aircraft takes off to the North when it has been instructed by the tower to take off to the South?
75 Scooter01: Ah, the French... -have you ever been a passenger in a taxi in Paris? Scooter01
76 AR385: Yes. Still. A major airport is probably not the same. I can´t imagine all the go arounds, taxi clearances cancelled and major navigationa and approa
77 eljonno: Did Concorde ever fly any scheduled services from LGW?
78 BenSandilands: There was a small tailwind component for the permitted southerly departure. The captain was reported to have told the tower that the departure would
79 GDB: No, some charters there but not many. The odd diversion too.
80 okapi: You can read more about the Pepsi Tour which saw an AF chartered SSC in this other thread: Did This Really Happen To Concorde? (by Cumulus Nov 29 2006
81 YYCSpotter: When runway 34-16 was first opened at YYC, a Concorde came for the ceremony.
82 readytotaxi: 1980's England, there was a travel agency that chartered Concorde for trips that just went around the English channel and then returned to LHR. They w
83 Viscount724: Concorde didn't exist when runway 16-34 first opened at YYC.
84 YYCSpotter: Correction, when runway 34/16 was lengthened to it's current length
85 VV701: In addition to the diversion airports listed above here is the list of "Charter Destinations" served up until 1998 as given in the same source (p.231
86 readytotaxi: Wow, great information there, thanks.
88 brooklynchris13: First trip to CMH was on my birthday, September 11, 1985. I was excused from school in Reynoldsburg to go to the airport with my Dad provided I took
89 FlySSC: Concorde "Go around" during a cross wind landing at Leeds-Bradford : http://youtu.be/T7wmyx__l-s Landing at HKG Kai Tak : http://youtu.be/kl08ld7-BS
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