The Concorde supersonic jet that has been parked along Manhattan’s west side since retiring from commercial air travel took a slow boat to Brooklyn on Wednesday, 9 August, for a facelift that will take several months.
After Concorde’s service ended in 2003, New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum took in the British Airways Concorde that still holds the record for the fastest transatlantic crossing by a passenger aircraft - 2 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds from Heathrow to John F. Kennedy Airport.
The needle-nosed jet will now be out of commission once more - until the spring of 2024. It will be stripped down, sanded and repainted at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
After Concorde’s service ended in 2003, New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum took in the British Airways Concorde that still holds the record for the fastest transatlantic crossing by a passenger aircraft - 2 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds from Heathrow to John F. Kennedy Airport.
The needle-nosed jet will now be out of commission once more - until the spring of 2024. It will be stripped down, sanded and repainted at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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00:00 Well we lifted the Concorde off, put it on a barge and it's on its way over to the Brooklyn
00:11 Navy Yard, GMD Shipyard.
00:13 Forty percent of our visitors are from Britain, they love to come and visit it, tour it, and
00:18 it's just, it's become kind of a landmark in the city.
00:24 Needs to be repainted, number one.
00:26 Number two is we've got to rebuild the pier that was sitting next to it, that project's
00:29 going to start in the next couple of weeks.