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A procedural model built in Blender from published dimensions, drawings and photographs, painted as G-BOAC in British Airways colours, white overall with the navy ‘BRITISH AIRWAYS’ titles, the red speedwing ribbon and the red, navy and red fin ribbons, as it stands at the Runway Visitor Park, Manchester Airport. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · download .glb (850 KB)
History
The Concorde
Concorde was a joint Anglo-French programme, agreed by treaty in 1962, to build an airliner that flew at twice the speed of sound. Its slender ogival delta wing and drooping nose gave it a shape unlike any other airliner. The French prototype first flew at Toulouse on 2 March 1969, and the British prototype followed from Filton on 9 April.
British Airways and Air France began scheduled services on 21 January 1976. Concorde cruised at Mach 2 at around 60,000 feet, and could cross the Atlantic in under three and a half hours. Only twenty were built, including six prototypes and pre-production aircraft, and fourteen flew in airline service.
An Air France Concorde crashed at Paris in July 2000, and after a long grounding and modification the type returned to service in November 2001. Falling passenger numbers led British Airways and Air France to retire their fleets in 2003.
This airframe
102 G-BOAC
G-BOAC was one of British Airways’ original Concordes and served with the airline until the fleet was retired in 2003. It made its last flight on 31 October 2003, landing at Manchester Airport, where it is now displayed at the Runway Visitor Park. The model shows it in the airline’s white livery with the navy titles and red ‘speedwing’ ribbon.
Where to see one
In the gazetteer
The gazetteer records the Concorde in 6 UK collections. The airframe modelled here is marked.