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Moving Concorde to Brooklands Museum

(All pictures from Brooklands Museum)

Concorde 202 before works gets underway to section her for transportation to Brooklands museum
An outer wing is loaded onto Ceejays lorry for the trip east
The outer wing arrives at the museum
Unloading Concorde's giant tail fin
G-BBDG is moved to a remote location for sectioning, The forward wings were also removed, the first time they had even been taken off a Concorde.
The tail section from frames 74 to 88 is loaded for the journey to Brooklands.
The fuselage missing the tail section. Extra jacks were used to ensure it would not tip back.
The forward section from Frame 25 forward is removed and craned onto a flatbed Lorry provided by Queens Motors
The cockpit bids farewell to the rest of the fuselage....for a few weeks only.
The forward and rear sections on the M4 at junction 7, tailed by transport coordinator Andy Lambert
The forward section on the M4 from Bristol
Concorde G-BBDG arrives home at Brooklands on May 5th 2004
The forward section is lifed off the flatbed lorry
The droop nose, forward fuselage, rear fuselage and tail cone on public display at Brooklands museum on May 6th.

 

To Be Continued.......


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