Duxford

[Minty4371]

Just looked at some photographs this afternoon that I took at Duxford Air Museum in late 1993. It was before the American Aviation Hall had been built, as the B52 was outside, and the B17G (not Sally B) was inside the main hangar (now Air Space). I haven't been there since , as my dad had rented a car for a short period of time. Saw their Vulcan with a Blue Steel missile near the nose end of the aircraft. It was in the main hangar. Concorde was outside. Is that a development one, or did it actually fly.

[Sooty655]

Just looked at some photographs this afternoon that I took at Duxford Air Museum in late 1993. It was before the American Aviation Hall had been built, as the B52 was outside, and the B17G (not Sally B) was inside the main hangar (now Air Space). I haven't been there since , as my dad had rented a car for a short period of time. Saw their Vulcan with a Blue Steel missile near the nose end of the aircraft. It was in the main hangar. Concorde was outside. Is that a development one, or did it actually fly.

Google is your friend, and leads to Duxford's website which reports that-

Duxford's Concorde, number 101, was the third to be built for test purposes before the world's first supersonic airliner went into production..... It first flew in 1971 and carried 12 tons (12,209 kg) of test equipment for a five year period of test flying.

In this time all aspects of Concorde's structure and flight performance were measured with 209 flying hours at supersonic speed and 170 of these at twice the speed of sound. In 1974 this aircraft reached Mach 2.23 while making the fastest flight of any Concorde.