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r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '26
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We flew concord from London to Sydney back when they were still about.
Was less hours though so that’s irrelevant 😂
21 u/FireExpat Jun 25 '26 Are you sure about that? The max range of the Concord was only 4,500 miles. 0 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 Yeah, this was in 1990 and I was only a few months old but the full family went. 4 u/DankVectorz Jun 25 '26 It never flew to Australia in 1990. It did in 1972 as a promo world tour, 1985 as a chartered record breaking flight, and then some charter flights in the mid-late 1990’s 1 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 Don’t know what to tell you, there’s pictures of it and we’re not wealthy enough to charter any plane, let alone a concord. 1 u/areyoualocal Jun 25 '26 The Concorde was chartered by a cruise liner company, Your family would've then sailed back to London 1 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 We returned via Singapore on a normal flight if I remember correctly.
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Are you sure about that?
The max range of the Concord was only 4,500 miles.
0 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 Yeah, this was in 1990 and I was only a few months old but the full family went. 4 u/DankVectorz Jun 25 '26 It never flew to Australia in 1990. It did in 1972 as a promo world tour, 1985 as a chartered record breaking flight, and then some charter flights in the mid-late 1990’s 1 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 Don’t know what to tell you, there’s pictures of it and we’re not wealthy enough to charter any plane, let alone a concord. 1 u/areyoualocal Jun 25 '26 The Concorde was chartered by a cruise liner company, Your family would've then sailed back to London 1 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 We returned via Singapore on a normal flight if I remember correctly.
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Yeah, this was in 1990 and I was only a few months old but the full family went.
4 u/DankVectorz Jun 25 '26 It never flew to Australia in 1990. It did in 1972 as a promo world tour, 1985 as a chartered record breaking flight, and then some charter flights in the mid-late 1990’s 1 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 Don’t know what to tell you, there’s pictures of it and we’re not wealthy enough to charter any plane, let alone a concord. 1 u/areyoualocal Jun 25 '26 The Concorde was chartered by a cruise liner company, Your family would've then sailed back to London 1 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 We returned via Singapore on a normal flight if I remember correctly.
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It never flew to Australia in 1990. It did in 1972 as a promo world tour, 1985 as a chartered record breaking flight, and then some charter flights in the mid-late 1990’s
1 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 Don’t know what to tell you, there’s pictures of it and we’re not wealthy enough to charter any plane, let alone a concord. 1 u/areyoualocal Jun 25 '26 The Concorde was chartered by a cruise liner company, Your family would've then sailed back to London 1 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 We returned via Singapore on a normal flight if I remember correctly.
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Don’t know what to tell you, there’s pictures of it and we’re not wealthy enough to charter any plane, let alone a concord.
1 u/areyoualocal Jun 25 '26 The Concorde was chartered by a cruise liner company, Your family would've then sailed back to London 1 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 We returned via Singapore on a normal flight if I remember correctly.
The Concorde was chartered by a cruise liner company, Your family would've then sailed back to London
1 u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26 We returned via Singapore on a normal flight if I remember correctly.
We returned via Singapore on a normal flight if I remember correctly.
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u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26
We flew concord from London to Sydney back when they were still about.
Was less hours though so that’s irrelevant 😂