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Concorde arrives at the Museum of Flight

20th April, 2004

Concorde arrives

The British Airways Concorde to be displayed at the National Museums of Scotland’s Museum of Flight at East Fortune arrived on Monday 19th of April 2004.

Concorde en route

Officially welcomed by Scottish Executive Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport Frank McAveety, the supersonic airliner (registration G-BOAA) completed its lengthy journey from London to East Lothian after being transported on road, sea and a metal track laid by the Army over a mile of East Lothian farmland.

Concorde on the quayside

Assigned to the National Museums of Scotland-run airfield after heavy competition from 60 other bidders, the sleek airliner, without its fin, wings and engines, arrived on top of a 48-wheeled bogie normally used for transporting North Sea oil and gas related equipment.

This Concorde, which held the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing by a civil aircraft (2 hours and 52 minutes and 59 seconds from London to New York), was the first to be delivered to British Airways and the last to leave its operational base at London’s Heathrow airport.

Concorde and Torness power station

It had left Heathrow two weeks before, where it made its way through the streets surrounding the airport before being loaded onto a barge, the Terra Marique. The barge, making its maiden operational voyage, then passed through London on the River Thames before heading north up the east coast of Britain to Torness Power Station near Dunbar, where it arrived on Saturday 17th April. The Concorde was unloaded onto the jetty and then transported through Torness before being moved along the closed-off A1 on Sunday night. It sat overnight only a mile away from its final home, where it was taken on Monday morning, in full view of the public.

The Concorde will be the centrepiece in the revamped displays at the Museum of Flight once it has been reconstructed. It is hoped to have it on full public display by late summer 2004 where it is sure to be a very popular attraction.

Facts about Concorde

  • It was the first civil aeroplane to go into scheduled service that was able to carry passengers faster than the speed of sound.
  • It could fly at twice the speed of sound - almost 1,400 miles an hour - or 23 miles every minute. Which meant that if you were to pass over Edinburgh at 10 o’clock, by 10.15 you’d be over London.
  • Concorde could fly almost twice as high as other airliners, at 60,000 feet. That is 11 miles above the Earth's surface.
  • It’s one of the few aircraft in which you could see the sun rise in the west. If you took off after sunset and flew west, because Concorde can fly faster than the earth’s rotation, it “catches up” with the sun and so it appears to rise over the western horizon.
  • The airframe expanded as much as 20 centimetres (8 inches) during flight as a result of the heat generated by air friction travelling at such high speeds. It was possible that a member of the crew could put their hand into a gap between the engineer's instrument panel and the cockpit bulkhead during supersonic flight, but when on the ground and the aircraft had cooled down, the gap had been reduced and this was no longer possible.
  • Concorde flew passengers for British Airways from 1976 to 2003. Its final scheduled day of operational flights in October 2003 saw one aircraft, G-BOAE, fly into Edinburgh’s Turnhouse airport. It then returned to Heathrow and landed in a stream with two other Concordes, making a truly memorable sight to anyone who witnessed it.

There will be more information on Concorde, and its remarkable journey to East Fortune, in a series of resources which will be available shortly on Scran

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