Google Earth: Concorde at Airbus Toulouse...
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TimW said:
and u managed to find that, how. The only thing i can find is my house my old house n the local maccyD's... 
>> Edited by TimW on Friday 6th January 00:06
I was watching a program on the 747, and decided I wanted to find the Everett Factory they build and paint them in. Which is here 47°55'26.34"N 122°16'30.43"W
Then I thought
What about Airbus. So I found the Hamburg Facility 53°32'32.77"N 9°50'37.01"E Complete with Super Guppy. I didn't know they had a factory at Toulouse but found it through the website.
tvradict said:
43°37'25.48"N 1°20'49.94"E
Looks like its sitting on Grass.
Anyone know why it would be there?
If anyone is interested there is a Super Guppy Transport as well as a finished plane, looks like it could be for Mr Branson.
There are actually 2 Air France Concordes at Toulouse. I couldn't see either of them when I flew in and out of there last week though.
There are actually 2 Air France Concordes at Toulouse. I couldn't see either of them when I flew in and out of there last week though.[/quote]
Your right, there is one here 43°39'32.50"N 1°21'6.80"E According to GE Community this is sat next to the new A380 Factory, so this image must be quite recent.
The second (the first one I found) is here 43°37'25.55"N 1°20'49.59"E next to the Airbus Factory.
Your right, there is one here 43°39'32.50"N 1°21'6.80"E According to GE Community this is sat next to the new A380 Factory, so this image must be quite recent.
The second (the first one I found) is here 43°37'25.55"N 1°20'49.59"E next to the Airbus Factory.
oyster said:
43°37'25.48"N 1°20'49.94"E
Looks like its sitting on Grass.
Anyone know why it would be there?
If anyone is interested there is a Super Guppy Transport as well as a finished plane, looks like it could be for Mr Branson.
There are actually 2 Air France Concordes at Toulouse. I couldn't see either of them when I flew in and out of there last week though.
Indeed there is a second Concorde visible at TLS (43.6588721245, 1.35190226312).
This could be the second TLS Concorde or it could be the same one but that appears in 2 different images photographed on different days.
The Guppies are actually American aircraft. They were conversions based on the piston engined Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, most of which had been retired from airline service by the early 1960s. At that time, NASA were looking for a suitable aeroplane to be able to transport Gemini space capsules and rocket sections from the manufacturers to their test and launch centres. A company called Aero Space Lines at Van Nuys, California put forward a proposal to convert old Stratocruiser to do this work. NASA agreed and ordered a small number of conversions.
When the Apollo programme began, NASA asked Aero Space Lines if it would be possible to enlarge the basic design to accomodate Apollo components, including sections of the Saturn V moon rocket. Aero Space Lines duly obliged and brought out the even bigger Super Guppy, which was turboprop powered rather than piston engined. Again, a small number of aircraft were manufactured.
With the ending of the Apollo moon landings in 1972 and the general run-down of NASA, a number of the Super Guppies were declared surplus to requirements. It just so happened, that Airbus Industrie were looking for a suitable aircraft to ferry large A300 components around Europe at exactly that time (the first A300 had flown in 1972) so bought a couple of the surplus Super Guppies. I think they paid for an additional new-build Super Guppy themselves later.
The Super Guppies were withdrawn by Airbus in the 1990s and replsced by the A300 ST Beluga, which is a "Guppyised" development of the original Airbus A300 airliner.
When the Apollo programme began, NASA asked Aero Space Lines if it would be possible to enlarge the basic design to accomodate Apollo components, including sections of the Saturn V moon rocket. Aero Space Lines duly obliged and brought out the even bigger Super Guppy, which was turboprop powered rather than piston engined. Again, a small number of aircraft were manufactured.
With the ending of the Apollo moon landings in 1972 and the general run-down of NASA, a number of the Super Guppies were declared surplus to requirements. It just so happened, that Airbus Industrie were looking for a suitable aircraft to ferry large A300 components around Europe at exactly that time (the first A300 had flown in 1972) so bought a couple of the surplus Super Guppies. I think they paid for an additional new-build Super Guppy themselves later.
The Super Guppies were withdrawn by Airbus in the 1990s and replsced by the A300 ST Beluga, which is a "Guppyised" development of the original Airbus A300 airliner.
RobDickinson said:
The antonov 225 has to be somewhere on gearth ...
It's operated Airfoyle Heavylift / Antonov airways so it could be in the very large hanger at the Antonov facility in Kiev - 50°28'21.45"N 30°22'46.62"E here if it hasn't been caught elsewhere.
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Friday 6th January 21:16
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