26 November 2003 is a day I won’t ever forget, the day that
Concorde returned to Bristol, the place it was born. I was working in Westbury
on Trym, adjacent to the Filton airfield where it landed. Concorde circled
around and around before it landed in Filton and we all watched outside work. I
visited her again when she was on the runway, where we had to take our
passports and be bussed into the airfield because it was owned by Airbus. We
could sit in the seats and all got to sit in the Queen’s seat 1A. We got to go
in all of the compartments and into the cockpit to see the Captains hat which
was wedged into the nose when concorde expanded going at mac 2.
Fast forward to 2018 and now concorde is Bristol Aerospace
and a large museum with displays, lots of other aircraft, projections onto the
nose of concorde and all seats and concorde behind glass.
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