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| piecost76 Member Since: 29 Sep 2010 Location: Nr Sevenoaks, Kent Posts: 177   
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Totally agree with you 
Lets move on & build something better & more ingenious
Electric space flight anyone?  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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28th Oct 2013 2:44pm |
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| udderlyoffroad Member Since: 18 Jul 2011 Location: Bristol Posts: 124
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Agree with above.
Why on earth would you want to bring back Concorde? There was barely a business case when it was launched, never mind now. People who can afford the stupendous cost of the ticket will (mostly) be able to afford private jet travel (surprisingly affordable on a time share or lease basis, apparently) with the added bonus that it will run to a timetable to suit them. Whereas Concorde needs three crew upfront, as has been stated its engines are low bypass military types so consequently scream like you wouldn’t believe…and it can’t do its party piece over land anyway! It’s ironic that all these armchair engineers who lament the passing of Concorde state that, at the time it was forward-looking, way ahead of its time and so on, seem incapable of looking forward now, only backward. Mind you, I might be a bit jaded, I work in engineering in Bristol, so regularly meet ‘old boys’ who claim to have single-handedly developed Concorde in a fag break. Matt Real trucks don't have spark plugs |
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28th Oct 2013 3:20pm |
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| jimbob7 Member Since: 06 Jul 2013 Location: uk Posts: 2055 |
For the Concorde aficionado's;
http://www.jetartaviation.co.uk/what-we-do/aircraft-engines/ For sale,one careful owner.  |
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28th Oct 2013 5:22pm |
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| AndyS Member Since: 18 Aug 2012 Location: London Posts: 595 
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I've seen these many times, well worth a view. It makes it look both dated and advanced at the same time.
Take Off: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=16a_1231096566 Climb: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9db_1231097949 Descent: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b79_1231107001 |
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28th Oct 2013 8:43pm |
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| IanW Member Since: 12 Jun 2011 Location: Gloucestershire Posts: 172 
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Awful to see that once graceful thing quietly rotting on the old BAC airfield at Filton. Ironic that the French disaster which caused the fuel tank fire was caused by a piece which had fallen off a Boeing aircraft thrown up from the runway. It wasn't grounded though, oddly enough. Local folklore was that immediately after it had landed at Filton on that last flight the various hydraulic fluids were drained from the systems as allegedly the wish from on high, (but don't know how high) was that it would never fly again. A good project for Richard Branson, perhaps? One wife - livid
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28th Oct 2013 9:14pm |
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| AndyS Member Since: 18 Aug 2012 Location: London Posts: 595
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I seem to remember Virgin offering to buy and run the Concord fleet shortly before BA grounded them but BA turned them down. I think Concord has flown its last.
There was a bit in The Times recently saying Virgin plans to turn its space orbiter into a London to Sydney (in 3 hrs) aircraft. That ought to fill the space left by Concord. (see what I did there, space - orbiter!) |
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28th Oct 2013 10:01pm |
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| keith Member Since: 15 Aug 2012 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 2163 
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Amazing to think that concorde was making £500 million profit before its demise
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