{"id":91,"date":"2016-09-28T06:23:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T06:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/?p=91"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:34:40","slug":"i-love-airplanes-especially-the-concorde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"I love airplanes. Especially the Concorde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Concorde\">Concorde<\/a>. It&#8217;s the most beautiful and cool airplane ever made. A few weeks ago I had some time to kill before a flight at Dulles (this happens to me once in a decade maybe!) and I jumped at the chance to see the one on display at the <a href=\"https:\/\/airandspace.si.edu\">National Air and Space Museum<\/a> next to the airport. Here are a few pics. It&#8217;s amazing that the British and the French came together to make such a beautiful machine. <a href=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_154213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-92\" src=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_154213-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_20160714_154213\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_154213-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_154213-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_154213-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_153117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-93\" src=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_153117-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_20160714_153117\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_153117-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_153117-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_153117-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/British_Airways_Concorde_G-BOAC_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95\" src=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/British_Airways_Concorde_G-BOAC_03-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"british_airways_concorde_g-boac_03\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/British_Airways_Concorde_G-BOAC_03.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/British_Airways_Concorde_G-BOAC_03-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/British_Airways_Concorde_G-BOAC_03-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ConcordeCockpitSinsheim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-96\" src=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ConcordeCockpitSinsheim-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"concordecockpitsinsheim\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ConcordeCockpitSinsheim-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ConcordeCockpitSinsheim-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ConcordeCockpitSinsheim-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_153113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-98\" src=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_153113-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_20160714_153113\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_153113-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_153113-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160714_153113-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a side note, not long ago I took the family to In and Out near LAX to enjoy some awesome burgers and watch the planes land. I love airplanes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160710_193704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-94\" src=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160710_193704-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"img_20160710_193704\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160710_193704-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160710_193704-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Airplane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97\" src=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Airplane.jpg\" alt=\"airplane\" width=\"977\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Airplane.jpg 977w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Airplane-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Airplane-768x419.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by the Concorde. It&#8217;s the most beautiful and cool airplane ever made. A few weeks ago I had some time to kill before a flight at Dulles (this happens to me once in a decade maybe!) and I jumped at the chance to see the one on display at the National<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xf__dots\">&#8230;<\/span><a class=\"xf__more xf__button\" href=\"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/?p=91\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-travel","xf__entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiphaynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}