Concorde RIP

"The Americans spent £400m and got a wooden model to show for it.
We spent a bit more and got a whole plane."

 

Using the patented Mavis Bacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Mick Whittingham

There's a right load of old bollocks on the BBC news website about New
Yorkers celebrating hearing their last sonic boom. They must either have
fucking good ears, or boats...

I've emailed the Beeb.

 

I reckon one should be kept flying and used in the same role for the
PM and Queen that the American use Air Force 1.

 

That wouldn't be hard.

Anything is faster than Websphere.

 

I heard it was a French fighter with a surveillance pod on trying to get
close up pictures of the canards in flight operation, um got a bit too
close and the Tu-144 had to exceed it's flight envelope to miss him.

 

Splendid book, that.

 

The difference is building one that can carry 100+ people, operate for
30 years, and not need a rebuild after every other flight.

 

Yeah, but Brummies will point at a Boeing 707.

 

I have a very old (published 1968) aircraft book which has an artist's
impression of Concorde carrying three Blue Steel stand-off bombs, as a
sort of military version alternative.

 

On 24 Oct 2003 10:35:34 GMT, (William Grainger)
wrote:

There's one at Yeovilton too - the FAA museum, which is actually
rather good now. Also got a Vampire (actually, probably a Venom)
cockpit you can sit in.

 

It was hinted on the Beeb tea-time news that one might be kept airworthy.

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Not long after the Concorde service to JFK started, a Concorde went over
NY supersonic by accident. The pilot confessed on landing and BA's PR
system got ready for the onslaught but nobody had noticed.

 

I read that story, too. No idea who to believe.

Whatever, the Russkis fucked up. As did the French a few decades later.

Not a good track record, really: "Name the country where all the SST
fatal accidents happened...."

 

If you think I'd support the idea of Blair having his own personal
SST......

Especially after labour canned Britannia.

I'm a monarchist, so I might *just* support HM. It'd make up for losing
the royal yacht, anyway.

 

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:36:36 +0100, "CT"

It really makes me wonder. Guys twice my age saw things like SR-71s,
Concorde, Tu-144 when they went to airshows as kids.

I get to see Tornadoes.

Is the human race advancing or going backwards?

 

Mick Whittingham wrote:

I went Concorde-spotting today. I guess that makes me some sort of
a sad-do!

It took off right over my head on it's last flight from Heathrow at
2pm, then I nipped round to the other side of the airport to see the
last three Concordes land at 4.

Couldn't have done it without the motorbike - the entire area was
gridlocked.

It's such a cool plane. What a waste

 

I watched an Antonov An-225 taxiing at Farnborough or I thought it was
taxiing then it took off. One big aeroplane.

 

It flew along the river Forth quite low and banked to the right to take
the aproach to Edinburgh and came in real slow with the nose up, engines
rasping, right over Edinburgh city. Well nice. A wee bit of showboating
methinks

 

The human race is still a bunch of arguing greedy kids, with better and
better toys to play with all the time.

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