…with the recent rumours of BA not being too happy, is she being maitained to a high anough standard or not?
I’m saying no for the time being. That panel has been missing since November!
Imagine all the rusting that could be happening in the inner skin!?
Looks at the dirt below the windows! 🙁
http://www.myaviation.net/search/photo_search.php?id=00144158
By: Ren Frew - 4th July 2004 at 10:33
look at me now!!!
Do we really have to ? (lol) :p
Actually each of the BA Concordes were pretty young in real terms, having performed the same amount of takeoffs and landings as your average four year old 737.
By: Grey Area - 4th July 2004 at 09:10
You know that pessimism knocks years aff of your life expectancy!?
True, true. I used to be 20, and look at me now!!!
By: RIPConcorde - 4th July 2004 at 02:42
You know that pessimism knocks years aff of your life expectancy!? 😉
By: Grey Area - 4th July 2004 at 02:19
Funnily enough, I was talking to one of the draughtsmen who worked on it only last Thursday and he said almost exactly the very same thing as I just did.
I’m sorry, but it is just another retired aeroplane and, in commercial terms at least, not a particularly successful one at that.
By: RIPConcorde - 4th July 2004 at 02:16
Of course I can!
At the end of the day, it’s just a machine for transporting people and their luggage from Point A to Point B.
Nothing more, nothing less…………….
You go and tell that to the people who built and the pilots who flew in it! 😮
By: Grey Area - 4th July 2004 at 02:12
You can’t compare any retired aeroplane to Concorde.
Of course I can!
At the end of the day, it’s just a machine for transporting people and their luggage from Point A to Point B that has outlived it’s usefulness.
Nothing more, nothing less…………….
By: RIPConcorde - 4th July 2004 at 01:56
C’mon, chaps.
It’s a retired aeroplane. The world is full of them. Some in better nick than that, some in worse.
You can’t compare any retired aeroplane to Concorde.
I don’t think any other plane will ever have a last day of service quite like Concorde did! Plus, it was somewhat more ‘special’ than any other aeroplane.
Think successfully transporting millions of passengers across the atlantic in 3 hours for 3 decades or so.
By: Grey Area - 4th July 2004 at 01:46
C’mon, chaps.
It’s a retired aeroplane. The world is full of them. Some in better nick than that, some in worse.
By: RIPConcorde - 4th July 2004 at 01:12
Never mind the state it is in, I want to know what the heck is it doing in a museum dominated my retired MILITARY technology?
she should never have gone there in the first place.
and more so, retired military stuff belonging to the navy, hence the reason why they are plonked on an aircraft carrier!
By: Bmused55 - 4th July 2004 at 01:09
Never mind the state it is in, I want to know what the heck is it doing in a museum dominated my retired MILITARY technology?
she should never have gone there in the first place.
By: RIPConcorde - 4th July 2004 at 01:01
Did someone in BA get a massive bung for this transaction or what ?
Give to JFK I say!
By: Ren Frew - 4th July 2004 at 00:55
Did someone in BA get a massive bung for this transaction or what ?
By: MANAIRPORTMAD - 4th July 2004 at 00:16
thats dreadful and very disrespectful!
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