markie
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Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 03:30 PM UTC
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Anyone mourning the death rattle of the mechanical age?
Mike Bannister before he took the controls to fly the Big Bird up and away from the Big Apple. He told the last passengers: "We're going to take you to the edge of space, where the sky gets darker, where you can see the curvature of the earth.
"We're going to travel across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, faster than a rifle bullet, 23 miles every minute. We're going to travel so fast, we are moving faster than the earth's rotation - and the world will be watching us."
Doctor Doom
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 03:46 PM UTC
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i flew in that mofo once a long, long time ago… even though I was just a kid it was an experience I'll never forget.
markie
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 04:09 PM UTC
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Where did you fly to, DD?
Doctor Doom
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 04:20 PM UTC
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Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
Where did you fly to, DD?
from London to New York.
How does that make me GGW? :eek:
Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 04:40 PM UTC
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I saw one takeoff from Dulles. Very loud, but now quite memorable.
ggw
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 04:47 PM UTC
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Originally posted by mankie:
Privleged, elitist up-bringing. ;)
Jealous, aren't you…..
markie
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 04:50 PM UTC
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When I went to my grandparents to be babysat I remember seeing concorde fly over a couple of times very low it was a great site.
But then my school got one of these to do a fly bye one time…… <img src="
http://www.warbirdalley.com/images/vulcan-02.jpg" alt=" - " />
ratioci nation
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 04:51 PM UTC
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Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
But then my school got one of these to do a fly bye one time……
Privleged, elitist up-bringing.
markie
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 04:58 PM UTC
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Originally posted by who am i, why am i here:
]Privleged, elitist up-bringing.
Yes, it was great, thanks for asking.
Actually passed my 11+ so my school was free.
Dupek its the
vulcan bomber. Its much bigger than that first picture makes it look. I forgot it was in thunderball.
There are about 10 military airfields within about a 50 mile radius of where I grew up. We saw cool planes all the time. Even the b52s from the first Bush war on Iraq.
ratioci nation
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 05:01 PM UTC
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Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
Yes, it was great, thanks for asking.
Actually passed my 11+ so my school was free.
Yeah, I dont know what an 11+ is, but good for you I guess. Was this Stamford?
Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 05:04 PM UTC
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Unfortunately/fortunately, one cannot change one's privilaged/unprivilaged upbringing just as one cannot change ones parents or ones class.
Madonna is finding this out the hard way.
markie
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 05:07 PM UTC
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Well in some places if you passed 11+ it let you go, but you still had to pay. the system has been mostly phased out now. In my day there were about 100 places to be won. Now I think its 10.
I would be laying bricks right now if it were not for that.
Yes this was Stamford. My parents never moved whilst I was at school.
Check this:
http://www.ses.lincs.sch.uk/index.php?sid=ss&id=5bc509e4365f34cfed46e689cb7110f2
ratioci nation
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 05:09 PM UTC
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Well then I guess that is what my dad did, did that system go back that far?
markie
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 05:17 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
was faster! Nyeh nanny goat!
Wow almost twice as quick….. Yours was ugly though.
markie
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Re: Say bu bye to concorde
October 24, 2003 at 05:18 PM UTC
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Originally posted by who am i, why am i here:
Well then I guess that is what my dad did, did that system go back that far?
Yes, it goes back a long time.
