Saturday again!
This weeks theme is Technology, so I chose this picture of the supersonic jet airliner Concorde. I took this photo last year at the Museum of Flight, just outside Edinburgh. I find this picture a little sad: this amazing aircraft used to fly at 40,000 feet and at 1,300 mph. Now it just sits there, and no airliner on Earth can go as fast. It’s still beautiful though.
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It really is such a waste of a great piece of technology eh? Beautiful shot! Happy Photohunting
Great photo! I’m new to this bogging and the Photo Hunt, please come by and visit!…
It really is too bad that all it does is sit there. What an amazing jet.
Terrific picture. Love the angle! Perfect pick for The Hunt.
That’s cool that you got to see it!
I might fly more often if it got me there faster! Very sleek lined machine! Great photo!
My tangled technology is posted. Happy Saturday!
I have a friend at work that would just LOVE this picture as he’s an aviation fanatic. I’ll have to point him in this direction!
Goof morning/afternoon everyone (depending on your timezone!) It was a magnificent aircraft…
Great photo! It is sad that we no longer have any commercial supersonic jets in service. Technology seemingly has gone backwards! Terrific choice.
Thanks for stopping by and have a good weekend.
That’s one of the coolest pics I’ve seen so far (on the photohunt!) Great choice!
Stacey
Wow, you were able to get up close and personal - that’s neat. Cool shot.
Great shot!:-)
I will Exercise for Comments!
Sunflower
It’s a beautiful plane and too bad it just sits there and not get used. Love your picture. Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend.
Amazing aircraft. I didn’t think the problems they had merited grounding though. I’m surprised no one could think of a way to fix them. Good post.
Hello everyone, thanks for dropping by. The plane was killed by a mixture of economics & jealousy. Sir Richard Branson offered to but them for £1 to keep them flying, but BA refused & hurriedly took them out of service. Some are still left rotting at Heathrow. Guess BA didn’t want another airline to use them, and there’s a fair bet Branson would have made money out of them.
When you consider it was British & French taxpayers money that built them, it shouldn’t have been a decision for a now private business like BA…
Now that is a really cool photo. I hope that your week is going well.
It looks freakin’ huge!!
Mine’s up too
Terrific picture.
Why thank you Teena. Oh, you meant the plane….
That’s an awesome photo. I would hve loved riding one of those.
Thanks for stopping by.
beautiful piece of machinery!
I´m sorry for being so late this week – I´ve got a bad cold… so I´m hunting out of my bed =)
That´s a great choice for this week´s theme!
Please visit my SPSH #5 - thank you =)
great picture, my brother in law works at airbus on the wings of new super jumbo planes.
Here is a video that contains footage from the Boeing Museum of Flight:
http://pugettown.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/is-there-life-after-microsoft/