No, but it went round the Bay of Biscay on the way to Bristol at 1350mph. Sad to hear it for the last time.. David On Wednesday 26 November 2003 23:58, Roger & Amanda La France wrote: > Now, > was it realy looping around London at 1,350 mph???????? > > -----Original Message----- > From: nobody@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nobody@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill > Hough > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 3:27 PM > To: airline; skyone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [Sky-1] SF Gate: Final Concorde flies to retirement in western > England > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SF Gate. > The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/11/26/ > international1212EST0534.DTL > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Wednesday, November 26, 2003 (AP) > Final Concorde flies to retirement in western England > JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer > > > (11-26) 09:12 PST LONDON (AP) -- > A British Airways Concorde flew into retirement Wednesday, looping > over > the Atlantic and English Channel at its top speed of 1,350 mph in what > the > airline said was the last flight for any of the elegant supersonic jets. > Thousands of Concorde fans cheered the plane's landing at Filton > airfield, > near Bristol in western England. > Prince Andrew greeted the flight, carrying 100 airline staff, at the > Airbus U.K. facility at Filton. The needle-nosed jet -- the last > Concorde > ever built -- will go on display at Filton, where it was assembled in > 1979 > and from where Concorde took its first British test flight in April > 1969. > "Today is one of the saddest in aviation history but at the same > time, > it's a day to reflect on the glory of what the U.K. can achieve," the > prince said. > Earlier, hundreds of people had lined the perimeter fence at Heathrow > Airport to watch the plane roar into a gray, drizzly London sky. > "There won't be anything like it in our lifetime," said John Smith, > who > regularly watched Concorde jets fly over his house in Shepperton, near > the > airport. "I'm disgusted by the way they are taking it away. It wasn't > built for a museum." > The Anglo-French Concorde, capable of flying at twice the speed of > sound, > entered commercial service in 1976. Carrying celebrities and business > high-flyers between London and New York in three and a half hours, > Concorde became the ultimate symbol of jet-set glamour. > But it never earned back the vast sums spent on its development. Air > France retired its Concorde fleet in May, and British Airways made its > last scheduled passenger flight on Oct. 24, when tens of thousands of > people turned out to watch the Concorde land at Heathrow. > Four of British Airways' seven Concordes have been sent to final > homes at > Manchester Airport in northwest England, Grantley Adams Airport in > Barbados, the Museum of Flight in Seattle and the Intrepid Sea Air Space > Museum in New York. > On Tuesday a Concorde was towed on a barge up the Hudson River to the > Intrepid, an aircraft carrier moored off Manhattan's west side. The > plane > is to occupy its own barge next to the Intrepid pier. > Two more, which have not flown since the July 2000 crash of an Air > France > Concorde near Paris, will stay in Britain -- one at Heathrow and one at > the Scotland Museum of Flight in Edinburgh. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Copyright 2003 AP > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > <http://rd.yahoo.com/SIG=12cf0vd20/M=259395.3614674.4902533.1261774/D=eg > roupweb/S=1705073027:HM/EXP=1069964879/A=1524963/R=0/*http://hits.411web > .com/cgi-bin/autoredir?camp=556&lineid=3614674&prop=egroupweb&pos=HM> > > <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=259395.3614674.4902533.1261774/D=egrou > pmail/S=:HM/A=1524963/rand=416944045> > > SkyOne--The Airline News Channel > To Post message: Skyone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To Subscribe: Skyone-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To Unsubscribe: Skyone-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List owner: Skyone-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Skyone URL: > http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/Skyone > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service > <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .