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This February half term, Brooklands Museum have been celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Concorde G-BBDG\u2019s (affectionately known as \u2018Delta-Golf). On the 13th February 1974, Delta-Golf took to the skies for the first time in a short flight from Filton to Fairford. Over the school holidays a range of activities took place at the museum to commemorate this occasion including the unveiling of a specially commissioned painting and a World record attempt at gathering Concorde models.<\/p>\n
In October 2003, British Airways formally offered Concorde G-BBDG to Brooklands for restoration and display. By June 2004, after much organisation and planning, all the disassembled sections of the airframe had been safely transported the 125 miles by road to the museum. Following a lengthy and costly restoration Delta Golf was formally opened to the public in July 2006 by Museum patron HRH Prince Michael of Kent.<\/p>\n
It was therefore very fitting that on the 50th anniversary of her maiden flight that Prince Michael would return to the museum to officially unveiled a newly commissioned painting. The Museum asked renowned aviation artist Simon W Atack AGAVA to bring Delta-Golf over Brooklands to life. He certainly met his brief. When the painting was revealed at an intimate gathering of former Concorde pilots, engineers and air crew, gasps of amazement could be heard at the sight of an immaculate Delta Golf flying high above the Brooklands site.<\/p>\n
The guests included the following personnel, many of whom will be well known to Concorde enthusiasts;
\n\u2022 HRH Prince Michael of Kent (Royal Patron of Brooklands Museum)
\n\u2022 Captain Mike Bannister (Chief Concorde Pilot)
\n\u2022 Artist – Simon Atack
\n\u2022 Captain Richard Owen
\n\u2022 Captain Ian Smith
\n\u2022 Captain Tony Heald
\n\u2022 Captain Paul Griffin
\n\u2022 Captain Jock Lowe
\n\u2022 Captain Neil Rendall
\n\u2022 Captain John Tye
\n\u2022 Warren Hazelby (Chief Concorde Flight Engineer)
\n\u2022 Carl Percey (Senior Service Concorde Engineer)
\n\u2022 Dr Ben Spencer MP for Runnymede and Weybridge
\n\u2022 Mayor of Elmbridge Cllr Richard Williams
\n\u2022 Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, Michael More-Molyneux
\n\u2022 Mr Alex Patterson CEO Brooklands Museum<\/p>\n
The Museum was delighted to share that the painting will also be available as a limited-edition print, signed by the artist, and the impressive gathering of former Concorde Pilots. This is the first time that Brooklands Museum has commissioned a limited-edition print, the proceeds of which will help to ensure the future preservation of it\u2019s exhibits including the only Concorde open to the public in the south of England.<\/p>\n
In addition to the painting unveiling there were several Concorde based activities during the day including the regular on-board tours and a nose drop. The enthusiastic crowd were treated to two nose drops on the day, the first was operated by HRH Prince Michael whilst the honour of the second was given to a very lucky raffle winner. Finally, members of the public were also invited to bring their personal models of Concorde and set them up under Delta Golf for a unique photo opportunity.<\/p>\n
If you would like to visit Delta Golf and the incredible collection of aircraft and historic motor racing cars, then you can find more information out at www.brooklandsmuseum.com<\/a>. You can also purchase a copy of the incredible piece of artwork and help to support the museum.<\/p>\n Report by Lee Chapman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This February half term, Brooklands Museum have been celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Concorde G-BBDG\u2019s (affectionately known as \u2018Delta-Golf). On the 13th February 1974, Delta-Golf took to the skies for the first time in a short flight from Filton to Fairford. Over the school holidays a range of activities took place at the museum to … Continue reading Painting unveiled by HRH Prince Michael for Concorde Delta-Golf’s 50th Birthday Celebrations at Brooklands Museum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336,291,58,10],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-336","tag-brooklands-museum","tag-february","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}