TQ0662 : Brooklands - Concorde - Engines
taken 3 years ago, near to Byfleet, Surrey, England

The engines for Concorde were Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 turbojets with afterburners. The final version fitted to Concordes was the 593-610-14-28 producing 32,000 lbf (142 kN) dry (38,050 lbf (169 kN) on reheat) of thrust.
Just 20 Concordes were ever built, (14 of them commercial aircraft) mainly due to the US severely curtailing its ability to service American airports (due largely to jealousy!) and the introduction of the Jumbo Jet which could carry around 366 passengers as opposed to Concorde's 100 - the Jumbo (Boeing 747) going on to sell 1,568 units.
However, Concorde remains to this day [2022] the only aircraft to carry passengers beyond the speed of sound - in fact at more than twice that, at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph or 2,180 km/h at cruise altitude).
Her maiden flight was on 2nd March 1969, entering service on 21st January 1976. The last flight marking her retirement was on 24th October 2003.
This stunning piece of engineering, resulting in arguably the most beautiful aeroplane ever made was a joint enterprise between the UK and French - the manufacturers being the British Aircraft Corporation (later British Aerospace and BAE Systems) and Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale and Airbus).
See Wikipedia article Linkfor more information.
The details of the 20 aircraft are listed below:
Of these aircraft 7 are now in the UK, 6 in France, 3 in the United States and one each in Germany and Barbados - Two were destroyed (one crash, one scrapped).
Aircraft Registration Airline (Flight Hrs) Where now In Country LINK1: LINK2:
Prototypes:
001 F-WTSS Sud Aviation / BAC (812) Air & Space Museum, Le Bourget, Paris F LinkLink
002 G-BSST Sud Aviation / BAC (836) Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton UK LinkLink
Pre-production Aircraft:
101 G-AXDN BAC / Aerospatiale (575) Imperial War Museum, Duxford UK LinkLink
102 F-WTSA BAC / Aerospatiale (656) Musee Delta, Orly Airport, Paris F LinkLink
Production Test Aircraft:
201 F-WTSB BAC / Aerospatiale (1275) Aeroscopia Aeronautical Museum, Toulouse F LinkLink
202 G-BBDG BAC / Aerospatiale (1282) Brooklands Museum, Weybridge UK LinkLink
Commercial Aircraft:
203 F-WTSC/F-BTSC Air France (11989) Destroyed in Paris accident: 25th July 2000, -- LinkLink
204 G-BOAC British Airways (22260) Runway Visitors Park, Manchester UK LinkLink
205 F-BVFA Air France (17824) Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Dulles Airport, Washington DC US LinkLink
206 G-BOAA British Airways (22786) National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, Scotland UK LinkLink
207 F-BVFB Air France (14771) Auto & Technik Museum, Sinsheim, Germany D LinkLink
208 G-BOAB British Airways (22297) Heathrow Airport UK LinkLink
209 F-BVFC Air France (14332) Aeroscopia Aeronautical Museum, Toulouse F LinkLink
210 G-BOAD British Airways (23396) Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, New York US LinkLink
211 F-BVFD Air France (5821) Withdrawn 1982 - Scrapped 1994 -- LinkLink
212 G-BOAE British Airways (23376) Barbados Concorde Experience, Grantley Adams Airport. Barbados BB LinkLink
213 F-WJAM/F-BTSD Air France (12974) Museum of Air and Space Museum, Le Bouget, Paris F LinkLink
214 G-BFKW/G-BOAG British Airways (16239) The Museum of Flight, Seattle US LinkLink
215 F-WJAN/F-BVFF Air France (12420) Charles De Gaulle Airport. Paris F LinkLink
216 G-BFKX/G-BOAF British Airways (18257) Aerospace Bristol, Filton UK LinkLink
Situated near Weybridge in Surrey, Brooklands was the first purpose-built banked motor race circuit in the world, and Britain's first dedicated Motor Sport venue. It was the brainchild of Hugh Fortescue Locke-King Link
and was designed by Colonel Capel Lofft Holden Link
Construction began in 1906 and it opened the following year. As well as the main oval, there was a straight Finishing Straight which bisected the oval across its northeastern corner (see TQ0762 : Track circuit plan, Brooklands) with a length of c.½ mile increasing the total circuit length from 2.75 to 3.25 miles (4.43 to 5.23 km). The course was constructed from concrete due to the expense and difficulties of laying tarmac or asphalt - this led to a less than smooth ride, especially with the motor suspension of the day!
Of this circuit, about 1.25 miles (2km) was banked - at an angle of up to 30°. Little of the old racetrack remains though part of the finishing straight and a section of the banking can still be seen.
The racetrack held its last race in August 1939, just days before the outbreak of World War II. The site had already become a major aircraft manufacturing location, and with the advent of war the Vickers factory spread over the racetrack, meaning the end of motor racing at Brooklands.
The lap record is held (and forever will be) by a Napier-Railton race car with a huge 24 litre aero-engine. It was commissioned by the racing driver John Cobb and built in 1933 to a design by Reid Railton. It was built by Thomson & Taylor. Driven by Cobb it achieved 143.44 mph (230.84 km/h) in 1935.
Brooklands now hosts an extensive and impressive museum dedicated to racing cars, aircraft and missile manufacture. The site also incorporates the Barnes Wallace Stratospheric Chamber and the London Bus Museum.
In addition to this there is also 'The Concorde Experience' as it is home to one of the Concordes (G-BBDG, the first aircraft to carry 100 people at twice the speed of sound).
30% of all the Concordes were build here at Brooklands. (i.e. 30% of every plane).
See the Brooklands Museum website here for information about visiting: Link
A large area of the museum is a Scheduled Ancient Monument: Link
This scheduled area includes the Restaurant which is separately Grade II listed: Link
Outside the scheduled area are three more listed buildings:
The Clubhouse (Grade II*): Link
The Bellman Hangar (Grade II): Link
Former Flight Booking Office (Grade II): Link
Brooklands was a 2.75-mile (4.43 km) motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge. It opened in 1907, and was the world's first purpose-built motorsport venue, as well as one of Britain's first airfields, which also became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918. The circuit hosted its last race in 1939, and today part of it forms the Brooklands Museum.
(Extract from Wikipedia Link)
Most of the track has now been built on, but some of the steep sided banking still remains, some of which is part of the museum, with another section running along side Barnes Wallis Drive, which now intesects it. The remains of the track, aerodrome and World War II buildings are a scheduled ancient monument.