Concorde to be sold to the highest Bidder

… yea the “one with a funny nose”!!

The pic is quite old… as this particular concorde has now been moved inside a hanger, with other aircraft.

RNAS Yeovilton Has a Concorde. I visited it last year, and went inside it too. But I wouldn’t give concorde parts to them Necessarily, becuase the main bulk of the museum is featured around the air side if the Navy.

great pic A330! – As for envy of your neighbours, mine wud just think i’m sadder than i actually am! I wonder if somewhere like Duxford could open a new “Concorde section” on parts from the Airframe, wud have to b somewhere which already has a Prototype of pre-development airframe!

Water feature???? lol!!

I suppose the wings would make a good sun shade……………

………..and one of the seats at a cool £3000 for a garden chair

You’d be the envy of all your neighbors

Dave

EGNM.. I have this pic in my collection… I posted it on a thread in the Flypast forum this morning… http://www.keypublishing.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11954

Dave yeah I saw that yesterday in The sun too. £3.5 mil for the tail section… would look great out in the back garden. Make it into some kind of water feature! :p

Still a shame though that they have to cut it up! 😡

There was a centre page spread in one of the tabloids showing some of the items up for sale , £10 for one of the menus amongst other things.

I think you’re right guys, it definately sounds like a “If we cant have them then sure as hell Bransons not having ’em” attitude.

Dave

yea that pic in AW last month on the last page with the 4 condardes is an awesome sight!

Ta for that Bhoy. 🙂

A guy in te Flypast forum says that as a farewell type thing, it is rumoured that BA will fly at least 4 concordes in formation! 😀

Neither currently have CoA’s, Alpha Alpha’s was suspended on the 24th Februray 2001, and Alpha Bravo’s expired on September 19th 2001.

I don’t know if the CAA would let them fly without the CoA or not.

Incidentally, here’s the expiry date of the rest of the fleet’s CoA’s:

Alpha Charlie 16/5/2005
Alpha Delta 3/12/2004
Alpha Echo 18/7/2005
Alpha Fox 11/6/2004
Alpha Golf 3/4/2005

would these aircraft be able to fly a non revinue positioning flight to go to museums?

G-BOAA and G-BOAB are parked up at LHR, last I heard. I know for deffinate the G-BOAA is still there.

When they announced the end of Concorde services the TV showed two BA Concordes parked up (at LHR?) which had not been upgraded after the accident. Presumably they will not be allowed to fly unless they are. Perhaps these are the victims as it costs real money to park anything at Heathrow. Still sad.
mmitch.

Shame for British Airways

If they finally go ahead and cut one of these birds and sell its pieces off, it will prove how desperately they are in financial terms that they are willing to break up this art of technology for the sake of money!!!!

Concorde deserves a better faith than end to the scrapyard, or to the highest bidder or to even to Virgin Atlantic. They deserve to end at museums and proudly display their beauty and what great things human can accomplish.

Somehow people just for money like cutting up pieces of history.

aye, exactly. I thought all of BA’s Concordes were already promised to museum’s, anyway? :confused:

But there’s already way to many significant models of airframe ended up on the scrapheap 😡

Whatever they do…fly it or keep it i dont want to see any Concorde seeing the cutters axe.

Yes, they bought them for £1 from the Government all those years ago. I still think it’s selfish for BA to have a sort of “if we can’t have them, you can’t have them either” attitude.

If they fail to run the aircraft successfully, let someone else try it. Perhaps they feel that it could be a mistake to let them go and it would be bad to see Virgin making profit out of them.

Sure BA paid £1 each didnt they?

I wish that AF will not do the same.
However maybe they will just scrap one of them