Brooklands Museum

Maybe Manchester- Yeah ... or somewhere like that.

Um, air shows often have big airplanes that you can go in and just sit in- Yes ... for a long time, and- Brooklands is another one.

Yeah.

If you go up to Surrey.

Oh, Brooklands is just up the road.

They've got loads of aircraft parked there.

Yeah.

It's one step closer, isn't it?

That was wonderful.

74 got even better because in February 74, and I can remember it clearly, I was one of half a dozen people standing out at Fairford when the third British Concorde, Delta Golf, now at Brooklands, thank God, When Delta Golf arrived at Fairford, virtually unannounced, no cameras, no Raymond Baxter, no TV, no razzmatazz.

And I was one of a few people standing with a camera.

And she arrived and she was virtually production standard with a long fuselage, totally devastatingly beautiful.

plus yeah 50 60 thousand feet and you'd hear a different sound volume whatever and even though you knew it was going to happen you we never deliberately triggered a four engine search because you could get some you could get yourself in a serious situation we always sink we always search one at a time and sometimes that would trigger off two that was commonplace and oh we did that endlessly but in fact most of my concord testing was done doing just that i did several tours down to Casablanca.

Initially we used Tangier, but Casablanca became more favoured than Tangier because of the airspace and the fact you were closer to the equator, the cold air, starting from Casablanca.

It was my privilege to do a lot of it, and a lot of it on Delta Golf, which is Brooklyn's, which is the Concord I've flown the most.

Yeah, wonderful.

brooklyn's radio events guide

and welcome along to the events guide and with me as usual it's diana roberts from destination toolkit hello diana

hello graham how are you

I think I will.

Yeah, I think you probably will.

London Bus Museum Transport Fest at Brooklyn's Museum on the 18th of October between 10 and 5.

Included in normal museum admission and there is free parking.

And I would highly recommend you book in advance because if nothing else, it's a quicker queue.

Yes, the taxi from Live and Let Die.

So I went to Brooklands Museum on Sunday for a German day car show, and there's a guy there who sells model cars, and he always has these Bonds-

Steady on, Charlie

... cars.

I mean, I never got the chance to ride on it because it was expensive.

But in the, is it Brooklyn's Air Museum? Oh, Brooklyn's Museum.

They've got, or they used to have a Concorde there because there was more than one.

Yeah.

An old biplane with a bent nose that somebody pulled out of a bog in Connemara? It is one of the most important aircraft ever built.

Much of what I know about this flight comes from the original Daily Mail coverage, and from the records held at the Brooklyn's Museum in Surrey, where the Vickers Company archives are preserved.

You can find more at RadioHanger.com.

Some flights change what people think is possible.

Okay, sure.

Anyway, highlight of course of this trip was the drive we did to Donington Museum and Brooklyn's Banking and Museum.

And both of these are highly recommended if you happen to be in Her Majesty's backyard.

I mean Brooklyn's, like I was telling Peter, I read about Brooklyn's long before I read about Monza because it's such a historical place and to be there and spending some quality time on the banking.

was very soothing.

Yeah, that