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Concorde?
« on: 17 February 2009, 23:31:30 »
Just having a flick round the net.

Found this pic, no story with it as people were asking the same as I am at the moment.

Dont even know how long ago it was taken.  Any one know what happened to this and other Concordes in the end.?
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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #1 on: 17 February 2009, 23:33:18 »
What a fantastic areoplane that was should never have been taken out :(

Would have loved to have done the Breakfast in America thing...
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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #2 on: 17 February 2009, 23:33:30 »
That pic was taken in New York, dunno when.

One Concorde is up here....

http://www.nms.ac.uk/museumofflighthomepage.aspx

A good day out, if in the area....    :y
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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #3 on: 17 February 2009, 23:35:28 »
« Last Edit: 17 February 2009, 23:41:42 by hotel21 »
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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #4 on: 17 February 2009, 23:36:08 »
Cheers  :y :y
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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #5 on: 17 February 2009, 23:36:58 »
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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #6 on: 17 February 2009, 23:42:13 »
Everything you might want to know is here:

http://www.concordesst.com/

BA ensured they all went to places that would maximise their rate of corrosion in case anyone wanted to return them to flight.  >:(

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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #7 on: 17 February 2009, 23:42:58 »
I think the cheese eating surrender monkeys French have got one too :-/ :-/ :-/
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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #8 on: 18 February 2009, 00:14:52 »
The future's in a museum......... >:(
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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #9 on: 18 February 2009, 10:50:25 »
AFAIK all the surviving "concordes" are just shells. Ba had them gutted to ensure they could never fly again.
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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #10 on: 18 February 2009, 11:00:03 »
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AFAIK all the surviving "concordes" are just shells. Ba had them gutted to ensure they could never fly again.

Should have been forced to sell them to Branson... He was willing to pay for the required upgrades to keep them in the air :y :y :y

Was a sad day for British aviation when "The Bird" stopped flying :( :(
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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #11 on: 18 February 2009, 11:01:11 »
Seems like a backwards step to me........................in the 70's.............80's  ................90's ......if you had enough money............ you could fly across the Atlantic at  about 1350 MPH..........now in 2009 ....we can only fly at about 600MPH...............How is that progress?.

I know that there are financial and environmental reasons as to why Concorde did not fly again....................but I still think it's a shame. :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :y
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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #12 on: 18 February 2009, 11:08:07 »
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Should have been forced to sell them to Branson... He was willing to pay for the required upgrades to keep them in the air :y :y :y

Was a sad day for British aviation when "The Bird" stopped flying :( :(

In reality it would never have been possible to fly them again without the Airbus consortium either taking on or relinquishing to a third party the design responsibility for the aircraft type. I suspect it has enough on its' plate with slipping A380 deadlines to worry about an old fossil like Concorde.

I suspect Air France and BA also satisfied themselves that Airbus would keep that door firmly closed.

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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #13 on: 18 February 2009, 11:32:06 »
ok  since this is something close to my heart  i can tell you where the 7 BA concordes are they were registered G-BOAA through to G-BOAF

G-BOAA  is at east fortune airfield  in Edinburgh
G-BOAB On display Airside at Heathrow
G-BOAC (flagship plane) is at Manchester Airport
G-BOAD USS Intrepid in New York
G-BOAE Grantley Adams International Airport, Barbados
G-BOAF Filton Airfiled, Bristol  (they were made here )
G-BOAG Museum of Flight, Seattle

these are the BA planes  there were 3 more Concordes built in the uk
2 were prototypes and one was a pre-production planes

G-BSST   Preserved Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, Somerset, England, on behalf of Science Museum

G-AXDN  Imperial War Museum, Duxford

G-BBDG  Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey

so thats where they all are now (not counting the French ones)
theres loads of info on conc's over at concordesst.com

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Re: Concorde?
« Reply #14 on: 18 February 2009, 11:38:06 »
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Should have been forced to sell them to Branson... He was willing to pay for the required upgrades to keep them in the air :y :y :y

Was a sad day for British aviation when "The Bird" stopped flying :( :(

In reality it would never have been possible to fly them again without the Airbus consortium either taking on or relinquishing to a third party the design responsibility for the aircraft type. I suspect it has enough on its' plate with slipping A380 deadlines to worry about an old fossil like Concorde.

I suspect Air France and BA also satisfied themselves that Airbus would keep that door firmly closed.

Kevin
the maintinece contract fees were shared between BA and Air France
France no longerwanted  to run its loss making Concorde Service  in part due to its planned merger with KLM  
BA could not afford to do it on its own and decided to retire its fleet
 there was also the factor that  "airbus" had increased their contract charging significantly.

Doug
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