Concorde Takes Slow Boat to Scotland

British Airways’ last Concorde swapped the glamour of supersonic flight for a sedate voyage by barge on its final journey through London.

Stripped of its tail and wings, the icon of speed cruised past the Houses of Parliament on the River Thames on the way to an aviation museum in Scotland.

Concorde G-BOAA left London’s Heathrow Airport on Sunday and is expected to arrive at the Museum of Flight near Edinburgh on Monday.

It is the last of the airline’s seven Concordes to find a home following BA’s decision last year to scrap the plane. Costs escalated after an Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris in July 2000, killing 113 people.