Say bu bye to concorde

[markie]

Anyone mourning the death rattle of the mechanical age?
 
 
 Mike Bannister before he took the controls to fly the Big Bird up and away from the Big Apple. He told the last passengers: "We're going to take you to the edge of space, where the sky gets darker, where you can see the curvature of the earth.
 
 "We're going to travel across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, faster than a rifle bullet, 23 miles every minute. We're going to travel so fast, we are moving faster than the earth's rotation - and the world will be watching us."

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

i flew in that mofo once a long, long time ago... even though I was just a kid it was an experience I'll never forget.

[mankie]

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
  i flew in that mofo once a long, long time ago... even though I was just a kid it was an experience I'll never forget.

Doctor Doom is GGW...huh, who knew?
 
 My best memory of Concord is from waaaaay back. Me and a good mate from the Navy decided to spend our leave in Majorca...Anyway, we're pissed out of our heads at Reading train station waiting for the train down to London to get the flight. Lying on the bench on the platform I looked up and there she was in all her beauty...of course, being the two piss-heads we were at the time, it took a good while before we realized it wasn't a UFO.....oh, those were the days!

[markie]

Where did you fly to, DD?

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
  Where did you fly to, DD?

from London to New York.
 
 How does that make me GGW?    :eek:

[mankie]

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
 

How does that make me GGW?    

I saw one takeoff from Dulles.  Very loud, but now quite memorable.

[ggw]

Originally posted by mankie:
  Privleged, elitist up-bringing.    

Jealous, aren't you.....

[markie]

When I went to my grandparents to be babysat I remember seeing concorde fly over a couple of times  very low it was a great site.
 
 But then my school got one of these to do a fly bye one time......  <img src="http://www.warbirdalley.com/images/vulcan-02.jpg" alt=" - " />

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
 
 But then my school got one of these to do a fly bye one time......  [/IMG]

Privleged, elitist up-bringing.

Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
  When I went to my grandparents to be babysat I remember seeing concorde fly over a couple of times  very low it was a great site.
 
 But then my school got one of these to do a fly bye one time......    <img src="http://www.warbirdalley.com/images/vulcan-02.jpg" alt=" - " />

That's the bomber from THUNDERBALL!

[markie]

Originally posted by who am i, why am i here:
  ]Privleged, elitist up-bringing.

Yes, it was great, thanks for asking.
 
 Actually  passed my 11+ so my school was free.
 
 
 Dupek its the  vulcan bomber. Its much bigger than that first picture makes it look. I forgot it was in thunderball.
 
 There are about 10 military airfields within about a 50 mile radius of where I grew up. We saw cool planes all the time. Even the b52s from the first Bush war on Iraq.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
  Yes, it was great, thanks for asking.
 
 Actually  passed my 11+ so my school was free.
 
 

Yeah, I dont know what an 11+ is, but good for you I guess.  Was this Stamford?

Unfortunately/fortunately, one cannot change one's privilaged/unprivilaged upbringing just as one cannot change ones parents or ones class.
 
 Madonna is finding this out the hard way.

Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
 Dupek its the  vulcan bomber.

Ours was faster!  Nyeh nanny goat!