Oh gee
Wearing her Paris Salon Number '196', Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde prototype 003 G-AXDN shows off her Ogee wing planform to great effect whilst appearing at the 1974 Farnborough SBAC Airshow
Here with her nose retracted into 'Supersonic' mode in a wonderful topside pass, she was the 3rd Concorde prototype - and our 2nd to take to the air with Brian Trubshaw at the controls.
With black test marks added on her port leading edge and the standard photographic calibration checkerboard marks displayed under her name, she held the accolade for the fastest recorded speed of any Concorde, reaching 1,480 mph (Mach 2.23) at a then record height of 63,700 feet while operating out of Tangier, Morocco
Preserved for posterity, she can be viewed and walked through at the Imperial War Museum's collection at Duxford in Cambridgeshire
Scanned from an Agfa 50 35mm Transparency taken with a Russian Zenith E camera fitted with a Soligor pre-set fixed focal length 200mm lens.
As here, those 'brick-like' Zeniths always suffered with an imbalance of light as the blind moved across the frame!
Oh gee
Wearing her Paris Salon Number '196', Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde prototype 003 G-AXDN shows off her Ogee wing planform to great effect whilst appearing at the 1974 Farnborough SBAC Airshow
Here with her nose retracted into 'Supersonic' mode in a wonderful topside pass, she was the 3rd Concorde prototype - and our 2nd to take to the air with Brian Trubshaw at the controls.
With black test marks added on her port leading edge and the standard photographic calibration checkerboard marks displayed under her name, she held the accolade for the fastest recorded speed of any Concorde, reaching 1,480 mph (Mach 2.23) at a then record height of 63,700 feet while operating out of Tangier, Morocco
Preserved for posterity, she can be viewed and walked through at the Imperial War Museum's collection at Duxford in Cambridgeshire
Scanned from an Agfa 50 35mm Transparency taken with a Russian Zenith E camera fitted with a Soligor pre-set fixed focal length 200mm lens.
As here, those 'brick-like' Zeniths always suffered with an imbalance of light as the blind moved across the frame!