Concorde Passes Under Verrazano Narrows Bridge; Arrives at Floyd Bennett Field

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Well, it's true, isn't it?

If this were from the Weekly World News, Elvis and JFK would have been at the controls, and Bigfoot, Batboy, and the three-legged skater banned from the Olympics would have been in the passenger compartment. Unfortunately, the BA Concorde was on a barge at the time. Anyway, just to prove that the headline is true:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/22/AR2006122200227.html

"Concord{e} Jet Moves to Temporary NYC Home"

They'll get that spelling right.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. I bet that this freaked at least a few people out

I could see driving on the BQE and seeing this thing on the water. I probably would have crashed my car.

[wakeme2008]

2. pic

[Wiley50]

3. I sailed My Boat Under The Verrazano bridge Leaving NYC

I can Verify that there would have been plenty of room
for it to fly under if they had chosen to do so

[musette_sf]

4. whoa, that's pretty cool!

i grew up in Bay Ridge and watched the V-N being built, so it looms large in my legend :-)

i remember when the Concorde accident happened, i was dropping off a rent car at San Jose Airport. an airport was the last place one wanted to be while hearing the creepy, awful news.

cool photo and nice imagery. i know they're not going to start flying the Concorde again, but it's a nice reminder of when we used to believe in progress, instead of trying to turn the clock back to the Crusades.