Forum: Civil and General Aviation

Hey fellas, just got back from a trip to the Aviation museum here in cambridge. They had the concorde that was used in the testing period and was wondering what the numbering on the wings was for?

It was a pretty cool place. They had a SR-71, B-52, all the WW2 planes, 15, migs, Hind, F-111, B-25, B-17, A-10 and lots lots more. Lots of good history.

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Hi akruse21,

Your talking about [G-AXDN] the first UK Pre-Production model of Concorde. Aircraft Number 101 (01) . I think the numbers you show in your picture are related to changes that came into play because of the long soak period between the Prototype and the Pre-Production aircraft.

The British Pre-Production version were closer to service fleet with the intake system being nearly the same. I'm guessing these numbers were used to assist filming/photography during laminar flow testing of the new designs.

Good info here:

http://www.concordesst.com/01.html
http://www.concordesst.com/fleet.html

Cool place huh, been there many times myself, that bird is way cool but short on head space huh.

I am 5'10 and I felt like I had to duck my head to walk through it but I can only image what a cool ride it was watching that Mach Meter display your speed in flight.

I too loved the Aviation Museum, very nice piece of history the Brits put together, been there many, many times with my children.

These block markings may have something to do with the water ingestion trials in the water troughs at Tolouse in 1974, but I do not remember them being there during tropical trials in 1975.

This was the hot ship of the development fleet, it flew from Fairford UK to Bangor, Maine, USA, in a record time of 176 mins, yes minutes.

This aircraft was also used to demonstrate the fastest possible cruise point of Mach 2.23 (1,480MPH) at a then record height of 63,700ft, a later aircraft increased this to 68,000ft.

There was a story back in the day. A concorde crossed the ocean and saw a 747 on the way over. It landed, unloaded, refueled, reloaded, and took-off. It saw the same 747 on the way back over the ocean. It was a really cool airplane, I do like the droopy nose feature, funny actually. I've been dealing with some stuff from it at the moment so I'm getting to learn lots about the Concorde.

Silly Brits Razz

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Is there any more info or picture you can provide on the numbers? We might be able to derive something meaningful if we could see more. Also, do we know what kind of tests the airplane went through?

i'm at work right now but i have a few more pics at home. The inside was packed full of old school computers and test equipment. There were no seats. The computers were HUGE.

Are there any flying now anywhere?

No, all are in museums right now.

Where is this museum? In Cambridge?

Occamsrasr wrote:

Where is this museum? In Cambridge?

Duxford, which is near Cambridge

http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/

Forum: Civil and General Aviation

Concorde question