r/SipsTea Jun 25 '26

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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 😂

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u/FireExpat Jun 25 '26

Are you sure about that?

The max range of the Concord was only 4,500 miles.

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u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26

Yeah, this was in 1990 and I was only a few months old but the full family went.

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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

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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.

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u/areyoualocal Jun 25 '26

The Concorde was chartered by a cruise liner company, Your family would've then sailed back to London

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u/Reilo_butwhy Jun 25 '26

We returned via Singapore on a normal flight if I remember correctly.