Super - sonic
With her nose retracted in full supersonic configuration, 'British' Airways Concorde G-BOAA slides by at the SBAC show Farnborough in September 1980.
Since the merger of BOAC and BEA (British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways) to form British Airways, the company has tried various 'marketing' gimmicks - this one was to paint just the word British on their aeroplanes. In some ways it worked but it was short lived as they reverted to the more formal British Airways before too long.
The operational Concordes in BA service all had registrations allocated alphabetically between G-BOAA to G-BOAG reflecting the BOAC lineage.
This one being their first c/n 206 G-BOAA, providing BA's London-New York supersonic service.
Her last flight was on the 12th August 2000, eventually making her way by barge down the River Thames, then up the East Coast where she was then off-loaded and roaded inland, eventually being towed across the fields to take up residence at the Museum of Flight at East Fortune airfield in Scotland where she can now be seen.
www.google.co.uk/imgres?start=105&biw=1920&bih=88...
Scanned 35mm transparency
Super - sonic
With her nose retracted in full supersonic configuration, 'British' Airways Concorde G-BOAA slides by at the SBAC show Farnborough in September 1980.
Since the merger of BOAC and BEA (British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways) to form British Airways, the company has tried various 'marketing' gimmicks - this one was to paint just the word British on their aeroplanes. In some ways it worked but it was short lived as they reverted to the more formal British Airways before too long.
The operational Concordes in BA service all had registrations allocated alphabetically between G-BOAA to G-BOAG reflecting the BOAC lineage.
This one being their first c/n 206 G-BOAA, providing BA's London-New York supersonic service.
Her last flight was on the 12th August 2000, eventually making her way by barge down the River Thames, then up the East Coast where she was then off-loaded and roaded inland, eventually being towed across the fields to take up residence at the Museum of Flight at East Fortune airfield in Scotland where she can now be seen.
www.google.co.uk/imgres?start=105&biw=1920&bih=88...
Scanned 35mm transparency