I returned to study under G-BOAD and found several interesting parts. There is a silver rod under the nose strake. It looks like a hook and it's on both
sides. One is numbered PO-4 while the other is PO-5. Are these antennas? I wound-up with a stiff neck after searching the entire underside for 3 hours. The
Concorde guard thinks I am crazy. Also of interest is something called a "Sighting Rod Position Ptc". What is this for? Is the front cargo door
behind the nosewheel in front of the Ptc Sighting Rod? A sign says, "To Open: Fully depress button, pull out handle and rotate". The only rear
cargo door I can find appears to be a regular passenger door in the aft section. I recall seeing a moving ramp bringing cargo through that door back in the
"good old days" of the 80's. I can find no rear cargo hold on the bottom of the fuselage. Finally, I see the code EOI-COM-5373503 written on
several wing pieces. I brought my friend and he was fascinated by the technical parts as well as the intricate beauty of this marvel called Concorde.
Afterburners, fuel transfer pumps, ramp doors in the nacelle to adjust air flow and the droop nose as well as the delta wing are all unique features.
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Posts: 1276 (18/06/09 17:03) |
PO4 and PO5 are static ports. See the same area on G-BBDG:
The main cargo hold is indeed accessed via the square hatch on the belly just behind the nose gear. The only access to the rear hold was the door at the very back on the starboard (right) side of the fuselage. There is no belly hatch for the rear hold.
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P05 is an ice detector. One each side.
http://www.flightglobal.c...969/1969%20-%203164.html The static port shown is S03 - the small hole; insignificant so highlighted by the red circle around it.
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"The Concorde guard thinks I am crazy."
That's OK, Shulman. All of us who have met you agree with him. 
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Imagine what they thought when me and my friend used to wait for the 2 JFK Concorde arrivals at the BA Terminal garbage can back in the 80's. I would place
my hand inside the can to retrieve used Concorde ticket jackets as well as used tickets. I have a nice collection in my house. It seemed that most Concorde
passengers tossed their baggage stickers, etc into the trash. To me, this was treasure. Menus, however were never tossed-away but I got a few by asking the
Duty Manager, Jon Wildbergh, who kindly gave us a private tour aboard G-BOAB. No such courtesy from Air France, although the Concorde dispatcher was a close
friend of mine.
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Posts: 2210 (26/06/09 08:25) Local user |
Shulman wrote:Well done Shulman. All these bits and pieces are now treasures in your personal Concorde collection, no matter where they came from or how you got them. One of my bosses used to fly Concorde weekly to report at the bank's headquarters in Manhattan and come straight back on the next available Concorde flight after he was done with his meetings. This was the case for most regular Concorde flyers. They would hop on one Concorde to NYC and catch the next available flight back after they were done with their business needs. It was their daily bread, all expanses paid by the companies. I had access to their expanse reports at the time so I know how much it cost the company to fly them but they brought in so much money to Big Corp. that the Concorde flights were just a drop in the ocean. These business flyers could not care less about keeping their tickets and ticket wallets for sure.
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Marie, I wonder if Shulman has any of your then boss's tickets?
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