Concorde Tour - Manchester Airport - Sunday 21st May
CPUK Host on the day will be our Chairman - Ian Kirkwood.
Join Ian for a 90 minute guided tour inside and outside this special Concorde aircraft, the former BA flagship. The tour includes time on the flight deck as well as underneath the aircraft in order to explore the unique engineering which was ahead of its time.
Lunch is available afterwards and then the afternoon is free to discover the Park’s other exhibits.
Cost for the tour is a maximum of £20 a head (it might be £15 if we have more than 20 people attending).
As the venue needs to know numbers & names (you get a certificate!), As of the 15th May there is still time to register to attend this great event!Let me know as soon as possible!
I first had the idea for this as a CPUK event way back in 2020 but unfortunately the world got a bit crazy so it went on the back burner until now. I had seen the Visitor Centre when I was flying into Manchester a few years back and Concorde was outside then but now it’s in its own hangar and 19 of us attended a group tour which of course included full access to Concorde G-BOAC. The Tour started in the AVRO suite where our tour guide went through the usual safety briefing and then showed us a short video of why it was such a fantastic experience to fly on Concorde. We then made our way to the aircraft and the first thing you notice standing underneath it is the sheer size of the thing! We were allowed to go on the flight deck in groups of 3 or 4 to witness the “business end” of the plane and all I can say is how the hell they flew the ting baffles me! The Tour guides gave us all the interesting facts about the aircraft including the fact that at full speed it “grew” by several inches because of the heat it generated and most worryingly it always ran on marginal amounts of fuel reserve so there was absolutely no room for delays. On take off the aircraft weighed 184 tons with half that being fuel! I had been on “Concordski” in the past at a Museum in Germany but Concorde seemed a lot bigger inside the cabin. I guess for the time it was so advanced it must have been difficult to understand the complexity of its systems but now it just looks ancient. However, there is no getting away from it Concorde was (and always will be) and engineering masterpiece, a legendary aircraft and a global icon. We all had a wonderful time and I would thoroughly recommend a visit if you are in the area, Thanks to all who attended.
