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Interesting detail about DGs last flight |
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Posts: 329 (04/07/05 17:08) |
There is an unverified story amongst British Aerospace staff that the last flight of the Filton airplane was on a contract to the UK Ministry of Defence, to see if a supersonic jet of that size would be radar visible heading over Iceland and down towards the UK from the West; a test of the country's radar defences against the then-new Tupolev Tu-160 bomber.
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gordonroxburgh |
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Posts: 6496 (04/07/05 17:12) |
Well I can tell you thats crap AFAIK. The last flight was a busy test flight and part of the PNC development programme, if it did anything special it would have been in the flight test log.
if top secret the logs would not have been freely available in the archives. the gov did you ba concordes a few time for target practice, epecially on airtests |
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ChristiaanJ |
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Posts: 7634 (04/07/05 21:04) |
".... to see if a supersonic jet of that size would be radar visible heading over Iceland and down towards the UK from the West...."
I'm sure some of the Concordes flew in that area, and I'm sure the MoD kept track. So they'd hardly need special flights. Wonder were this urban legend came from? Intercepts, mostly over the North Sea, were another story. Seems not all of them were that successful.... |
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blackanddarkness |
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Posts: 329 (04/07/05 21:42) |
Perhaps it wasnt logged then?
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ChristiaanJ |
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Posts: 7634 (05/07/05 11:45) |
" Perhaps it wasnt logged then?"
Indeed why would it have been? If there is any truth behind the legend, the MoD would simply have asked BAC if they could fly such-and-such a route for one or more of their technical (non-route-proving) test flights, and the Concorde in question would have done so, without anything else being expected of them. There would have been no reason to mention the "why" of the route in the log. |
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blackanddarkness |
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Posts: 329 (05/07/05 21:32) |
Right, well in that case, does anyone know the route of the last flight of DG?
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gordonroxburgh |
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Posts: 6496 (05/07/05 21:52) |
I believe it was bay of biscay, will Check
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blackanddarkness |
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Posts: 329 (08/07/05 17:58) |
Cheers, what wa sso special about the Bay of Biscay anyway?
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Posts: 6496 (08/07/05 18:12) |
We should always really use "Bay of Biscay" in inverted commas.
Essentially they would follow the track out as if going to New York, then turn back on a big arc that would take you close to the bay. The approach was up the English channel, so again close to the bay or biscay, but not really a round trip of the bay! The AF "round the bays" were a bit closer 
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blackanddarkness |
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Posts: 329 (17/07/05 20:01) |
Ah yes, on the Concorde experience flights I presume..
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Posts: 32 (29/07/09 18:52) |
Here are some actual details of the last flight - with flight cover :-
Last Edited By: c524
29/07/09 18:58.
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Posts: 6436 (31/07/09 21:44) |
Shame they made up the cover with the wrong livery (but correct aircraft)
After there were pics take of its final landing, so strange that they did not use them |
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Posts: 33 (03/08/09 17:56) |
I think the aim was to get the cover date franked on the same day as the final landing, so it would have been quite difficult to get the final landing
photographs developed (not digital in 1981) and printed on the cover on that same day !
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Posts: 431 (23/08/09 13:00) |
What was DG's livery on final flight?
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Project Oxcart |
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Posts: 3147 (23/08/09 15:58) |
White Tail Blue Cheat Line BAC Aerospatiale Titles
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