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| Tours must be booked - we elected to go on the nerds special 45 minute certificated tour. |
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| This is really rather special as one is allowed to feel the joystick (yoke) and fondle the volume controls (throttles) - reheat is preselected and cuts in when they reach 100%. |
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| Something not found on an Airbus - nose droop control lever (aka droop snoot knob) - required because the vortex flow generated by Concorde's delta wing at high angles of attack reduces the forward visibility at take off and landing. Concorde does not need slats and flaps like an Airbus for take off and landing - the vortex flow acts like a giant Dyson vacuum cleaner and sucks the 180 tonnes or so of aircraft into the air.. |
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| Captain Nikos' twin brother bites his lip as the tour guide John has his third nervous breakdown trying to answer impossible questions from a devout Concorde expert. |
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| Manchester airport from the Concorde flight deck - droop snoot down - obviously. |
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| Hello good evening and welcome - David Frost once sat here commuting to New York from London Interior redesign by Habitat - small windows to peep through. Centre arm rests fold away and swivel by 180 degrees and depict speedbird motif (a BOAC thing) . Seatbelts have been stolen by a Liverpudlian visiting school party. |
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| The paraffin dart - 202ft long when cold but due to supersonic compressive heating expanded by 1ft in supersonic cruise where it flew faster than a rifle bullet. |
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| Previously never seen before top secret image from the Nikos World wind tunnel of an Airfix 1:144 model shows the pre Dyson vortex flow established as high angles of attack |
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| Underneath the double delta wing - notice the camber that at high angle of attack allows the clean and stable formation of that vortex flow that I keep banging on about |
