concord test flight

RE: concord test flight

I don`t know what the fuzz is about, concord flew safely for decades,and when I saw
an item on the news about the AF test flight,I saw all of the paris fire-trucks starding
by on the side of the runway.
But………are they going to do that every time concord will take off????
they don`t do that kind of stuff when a 747 takes off do they?????
and there have been more incidents/accidents with the 747??
I think that everyone is over-reacting!
Get concord back in the air tomorrow and you`ll see that it was really an ACCIDENT!!!
Keep on flying CONCORD

RE: concord test flight

Disagree. The advantage goes to the Russians and the Americans, or do you forget the joint Tu-144LL test flights? Tupolev has been designing the Tu-244 SST for some years now and after the test flights with NASA probably has an edge over the Europeans, although not necessarily the USA, which has been conducting SST research since the mid 60’s with the XB-70, YF-12, SR-71, and Tu-144LL, among others.

RE: concord test flight

Well, Concorde will be back in service soon. Americans, despite their sayin they were not interested in supersonic flights, are developing a new supersonic aircraft (Boeing) which will be able to fly at small costs with 250 passengers and sonic sound speed. Europeans have the advantage and should learn and develop the new Concorde soon. So more supersonic flights in the future

RE: concord test flight

LAST EDITED ON 21-Jan-01 AT 03:10 PM (GMT)[p]Just a joke I heard that the French were smitten when this incident occurred being that in one air crash they had killed more Germans in one hit than in WWII }> no offence meant;-)

RE: concord test flight

I would place money on Filton too. It has a big wide runway and was where she was built.

RE: concord test flight

I reckon that Filton would be the obvious choice. Any other ideas?

RE: concord test flight

P.S. – I think Air France are conducting their tests in Marseille. Not sure where BA will test their a/c yet though…

RE: concord test flight

Air France are commencing high speed taxi tests in the south of France on 18th Jan and BA are currently fitting the new Kavlex protection to the fuel tanks, as well as making the wiring around the area of the tanks stronger. It is to cost BA £18 million to do this, but they are confident a once daily Concorde service flying LHR-JFK will commence in the Spring. If this goes OK, they will operate the standard Concorde timetable from September onwards.

RE: concord test flight

The Concorde possibly will be taken back to airline service in next month

RE: concord test flight

there is a flight for one of the AF concords from paris to somewhere in southern france to have a new protective cover put around the fuel tanks on thursday 18th jan