Concorde

[mik]

Helped my Mam sort out some old stuff at her house and came across this

That is indeed very

[JonMad]

Very

I'm sure I have something Concorde related, I think it's a toiletries bag or something.

My Concorde stories... I grew up in Langley, near Heathrow, on the flight path and every evening we saw Concorde taking off. Some relatives are BA cabin crew and they worked on Concorde. I was working at BA when they retired the fleet and did the take off, flight around and landing at LHR. I watched it from the roof of the BA Headquarters (Waterside) with a bunch of very emotional colleagues. My Dad was working for BAA (Heathrow Airport) and decided it was a good day to do an airside video inspection of some HVAC systems... which happened to include filming the Concorde landings from outside, airside.

I have a copy of The Concorde Story, signed by the author.

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[JonMad]

Damn, I see he passed away in 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Orlebar