From dream to reality… meetings with Mikel and Tamas REGERT.

Our friend Dr Tamas REGERT sent us some souvenir photos which we will share here with our visitors and tell about our different meetings at the Delta Museum.

Everything started on December 31st, 2015 when Mikel first came to visit the museum. That day the museum was closed. He couldn't get closer to our Concorde. But he kept asking his daddy to come back because he wanted to "ride Concorde".

It is important to remember that this little guy was born on November 17, 2013…

A few days after a new visit to the museum and the first real meeting with the SA.

It was during the next holidays that he came back for a new visit and it was on this occasion that Mikel asked us to "fly" the plane...

Pleasantly surprised by this request, we opened the flight deck and without any help he went directly to the co-pilot's station. Too small to reach the yoke from the seat, he stood up and started a long period of observation of the instruments and suddenly Mikel.

Pulled on the yoke and announced:

‘’Lift-off’’

Turned the yoke to the left and announced:

"Left turn’’

Brang it back to neutral and announced:

"We straighten"

Turned the yoke to the right and announced:

"Right turn’’

Again brang it back to neutral and announced:

"We straighten"

And it went like that for a long time with a lot of application...

Tamas installed in the flight engineer seat discreetly monitored the young pilot and began to tell us about the panels in front of him, and the various actions to be carried out by the flight engineer… he immediately noticed the missing panels and also commented on their functions.

The question immediately fell: "Are you a pilot?’’

Tamas responded modestly: "Not at all, I am passionate about Concorde because I am a professor of hypersonic, supersonic aerodynamics at the Von Karman Institute in Belgium, with two Hungarian friends Sàndor and Rudolf we are taking care of the restoration of a MIG 21 at the museum of the Beauvechain air base in Belgium and I also learn to fly.’’

It was at this point that our tremendous cooperation began to complete the missing flight engineer panels and to organize conferences about aerodynamic.

On each trip that brings him back to his grandparents, Mikel comes back to see us at the museum and always takes as much pleasure in "piloting the SA".

Time flies and now Mikel has no problem accessing the yoke.

‘’lift-off’’

‘’left turn’’

‘’right turn’’

And as soon as he can he always accompanies Dad to the airfield.

As Tamas is now licensed as a pilot, the dream is gradually turning into reality...

While respecting all the COVID 19 protection rules, in Holland, general aviation flights are authorized solo, or with unprotected passengers if they live in the same family as the pilot. Tamas and Mikel take advantage of this opportunity and they can accumulate flight hours …