1978 Farnborough Air Show. I was eleven years old. Concorde made a touch and go, and (as Ray has indicated above) I felt my entire body vibrating as full power was engaged!

19 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Back in 1998 whilst I was waiting for a Delta connection flight I looked out over Jamaica Bay to see a BA Concorde takeoff on the 31L Canarsie departure. Sitting on the left must be quite an experience.

And I was in the Airport Pub garden at EGCC when Concorde took off from 24. We were around 150 yards away and my chest cavity vibrated with the noise. Tremendous!

I've seen Concorde twice in person. Once it flew over my parents house when I was a kid, when it done pleasure flights from Newcastle Airport. But my best experience of it by far was after Concorde returned to active service with BA and my wife and I took our children to Lego Land Windsor and Concorde had just taken off from Heathrow (for those not from the UK, Windsor is not far  from Heathrow and directly on the approach/departure flight path) Concorde was still very low around 1000-1500ft full afterburners still on, and very loud. The highlight of my day. 

20 minutes ago, eaim1973 said:

Concorde was still very low around 1000-1500ft full afterburners still on, and very loud. The highlight of my day. 

I worked closed under the departure path of Concorde for a year, not far from LHR, and iff the office was quiet (in the morning),

you could just hear this fairly quiet distant rumbling in the distance. Yet you could tell it was Concorde long before it went almost overhead🙂

@DJJose, I still watch my DVD version. That option is no longer available but it can be downloaded and burnt to a DVD. A streaming option looks less attractive.

10 minutes ago, icewater5 said:

I worked closed under the departure path of Concorde for a year, not far from LHR, and iff the office was quiet (in the morning),

you could just hear this fairly quiet distant rumbling in the distance. Yet you could tell it was Concorde long before it went almost overhead🙂

Your right, as before it went overhead there was a rumbling noise before I even thought that it might be Concorde, as there were large aircraft every two minutes going overhead, I just put down to 747's etc. What a fantastic surprise it was to see a Concorde in all it's glory taking off, My sense of pride was evident, as with working for RR we had done the occasional part for the Olympus Jet engine at the plant I work at, knowing that some of the turbines on that aircraft were things that I had worked on.

When you think about it we let it go too lightly and did not appreciate the technological achievements of the West that it represented. Forty years ago just three and a half hours to JFK in comfort and with luxury service. What a superb plane which so called modern progress has never bettered! I am proud to have been of that era but am ashamed of what we have now become.

For those of you who saw my earlier post about the MAN-LIS route I'm currently flying it.

Reheats on abeam South Stack, Anglesey and by the time I'm 60 miles west of Newquay I'm now at Mach 2, FL510. P3D v3.4 / FSL Concorde. Reheats were on for around 5m 30s. Off at Mach 1.7.

Use that as a yardstick when you get to fly her in just 3 days.

5 hours ago, DJJose said:

If you have never seen the Concorde takeoff & land at Kennedy, I feel that you have missed something special.

I had the opportunity to see/hear/feel the Concorde take off from Heathrow back in 1999 from a window seat on the next aircraft in line for departure.  The pilot gave us a heads up and just before it took off and wow was it ever loud, even inside the noise muffled environment of an A320 cabin I could feel my guts vibrating.

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This is one of the first flights I'd like to do:

 

I worked in the DC area from 1985-1994 and saw the Concorde airborne on either arrival or departure to Dulles many times. She sure looked beautiful in the air.

My only regret was never taking the time to get a closer look...

59 minutes ago, DJJose said:

This is one of the first flights I'd like to do:

Nothing too tricky then! 😁 But with satellite imagery how would that be possible? That airport no longer exists. You'd have to use a different sim.

3 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Nothing too tricky then! 😁 But with satellite imagery how would that be possible? That airport no longer exists. You'd have to use a different sim.

Easily fixed: https://flightsim.to/file/4713/hong-kong-kai-tak

We use to hear it every night at about 9pm breaking the sound barrier above us in Cornwall. 

I remember passing one in a field (probably wasn't actually a field but it felt like it) somewhere on the road between Cornwall and Essex when I was a child visiting family. We stopped and somehow were allowed to climb onboard and have a tour. It was horribly cramped and we were all a bit disappointed.  

It's a pass from me. 

19 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Nothing too tricky then! 😁 But with satellite imagery how would that be possible? That airport no longer exists. You'd have to use a different sim.

I've got it covered. Both city and airport are available for MSFS. 😀

16 minutes ago, SierraDelta said:

Easily fixed: https://flightsim.to/file/4713/hong-kong-kai-tak

Okay but I hope you realise that was one of the most difficult approaches in the world. No ILS. There was an IGS but that meant a 47° turn to the right at around 600ft.

Difficult enough with a conventional aircraft but with Concorde’s higher speed it was especially demanding.

When I flew the Concorde simulator at Brooklands there were just four of us. An Emirates 777 captain had flown into Heathrow that morning and he successfully flew the Kai Tak approach and landed it well. No one else even considered it.