Well me and quite a few others have been working most weekends and some Wednesday's on this.  It's not finished yet, but i thought you guys might want to see the progress.  This Concorde can be viewed at the Brooklands museum, Surrey.  The public aren't allowed under or in the ac yet, but it should be finished by the end of next year:

Concorde of old: (About 1 year ago)


Concorde now:








This particular Concorde is Delta-Golf (G-BBDG).
She is currently having her wing tips put back on.  

Here is some history and cool pics:
http://www.concordesst.com/202.html

Enjoy!

Shame to see her like that. Nice shots, though.

That's a fair old job you've taken on there & no mistake.

Seems to be coming along nicely. Very interesting. I must pop up to Brooklands one of these fine days. Maybe I'll see you there.

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It still amazes me that out of all the times I saw that exquisite bird I never got a photo of it in the air. Ah well. Too late now.

Wow... Impressive hobby you've got there...

How did this bird get so tacky? Was it out of service during a long time? Or is that caused by the transportation and de-assembling?

Keep us posted!

Ahh.. Concorde, looking a little trashed though..

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Appropriate photo. Those are the colours she is being restored in judging by the photos I've seen of the fin...

Her last flight was in 1981.  Her main job was testing components for other Concordes, so she was fitted with various new components for trial.  In 1984 she became a spare parts donator to other Concordes

Her rear right gear is a modern post 2000 gear.  It has the metal outer shield on the cable and the radial tyres designed to prevent them bursting when cut.  She also has a prototype terrorist proof cockpit door fitted, post 9/11.

Once the outside of her is done, we will start on the inside.  The cockpit will look like the original and have lights etc...  The nose should be fully functional aswell. 

Most of her is painted now, alochrome (or alodine for the Americans) is being applied to the bear metal parts.  She has to be sanded completely in some areas, and quite a bit in the others.  Then a number of layers of gloss paint get applied.  Also she will have Diamond polish put on her when she is finished so she will glow in the Sun.  Also stop the bird **** recking the paint, because it just slides straight off the polish.

You can see in the 3rd pick we got quite a lot of the underside of the wing sanded.  We have still got to get most of the other wing done.

When i say this is a huge jigsaw puzzle that is an understatement.  You should see how many bits we have and don't have.  Any we don't have we have to make down at the workshop.  There are  thousands (maybe 10s of thousands) of pieces in lots of boxes in the Strat chamber next to her. 

It has been hard work so far, but we are making really good progress.