Concorde Farewell
Air France has been taking its Concordes out of service at the end of May 2003 and donated them to various museums during the month of June. F-BVFB has gone to the "Auto und Technik-Museum" in Sinsheim, Germany, to be displayed next to its Russian counterpart, the Tupolev Tu-144 (for photos from a visit to that museum, please check out the appropriate album on this website). The airport nearest to Sinsheim is Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, and that's where the beautiful supersonic jet made its last landing on June 24, 2003.
As Baden-Baden is just about 90 minutes driving time from where I live I decided to take the day off and witness the landing of what will probably be the last active Concorde I will get to see.
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Concorde overflying the airport in a wide circle before landing
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Turning left to position itself for a visual approach to runway 21
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F-BVFB on short final - still one of the most impressive sights in modern aviation!
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Flaring just before touch-down
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Taxiing in after landing
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Concorde being filmed from a helicopter
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The flight crew on the wing to salute the crowd and say goodbye to the aircraft
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F-BVFB on display at the Sinsheim museum two years later
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