Where Jets Once Roared

[vmlopes]

Test cell, where the Concorde jet engines where run at supersonic speed tests.

Ready For Take Off by Victor Lopes, on Flickr

To give a sense of scale, see the small cone on the left hand side of the machine above.......that's where the engine was bolted.

Staring Into The Abyss 2 by Victor Lopes, on Flickr

 

[desertstorm]

Fantastic pictures, just spent 30 minutes looking through your FLICKR photo's and Googling Pyestock. That must have been something back in the day with an Olympus engine running flat out.

 

[sidibear]

Pye, haven't splored that place in a while, is there anything still left of it?

 

[vmlopes]

Pye, haven't splored that place in a while, is there anything still left of it?

Think it's all but gone now