Barbados was one of four worldwide destinations that the Concorde flew into regularly (others were New York, Paris, London). It really put Barbados on the map for tourist hot spots amongst the wealthy. The flight was outrageously expensive (someone said $4500 20 years ago!) but it was the utmost of luxury and it got you there in about half the time. Flying at MACH 2, it arrived in Barbados in just under 4 hours, half the length of the trip on normal airliners. It came into Barbados on Saturdays and apparently was quite the site to see.
When BA announced they were retiring the Concorde, it made it's last flight into Barbados in 2003, landing on the tarmac waving both British and Barbadian flags. Now this plane has a beautiful museum devoted to it right here!
The Concorde. It is amazing how hard this was to photograph!
The girl sitting in front of the first Barbadian built airplane.
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Is that her infamous 'pink blanket' Emily was holding?
Yes! Can you believe we still have that thing? Sadly we used to have 3 and we would rotate them. Now we are down to only one (we just lost one this summer on vacation). Guess it's almost time for the blanket fairy or something!
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