2022
TQ0662 : Brooklands - Concorde - Cockpit
taken 3 years ago, near to Byfleet, Surrey, England

Brooklands - Concorde - Cockpit
This is the cockpit of Concorde 202 (G-BBDG). In the Seventies when Concorde first flew, passengers could wander up to the cockpit at any time and chat to the aircrew as the plane flew at twice the speed of sound over the Atlantic. They could even puff away on the complimentary cigar that they had been given for the flight!
Times have certainly changed; nowadays the cockpit of all major commercial aircraft are locked against the cabin, no passenger plane flies faster than the speed of sound, and no-one can smoke within the plane: “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
Times have certainly changed; nowadays the cockpit of all major commercial aircraft are locked against the cabin, no passenger plane flies faster than the speed of sound, and no-one can smoke within the plane: “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”