Originally posted by Moggy C
The sort that emenates from the open windows of underpowered cars driven by spot-infested pubescents wearing light clouored baseball hats with curved peaks.

I totally fail to understand why I should be delighted to share their over-bassed ‘music’

Moggy 😡

Spot on Moggy !
In a lot of cases if the vehicle itself was making that much noise it would fail an MOT. Weather or not the perpetraitor regards it as “music”, it still amounts to noise pollution and nothing less.
Worse is to come because in twenty years time all these brainless spotty scroats will be stone deaf, yet another burden on the health service.

Sorry young gentlemen, next time when you are stuck solid in the traffic glaring out agressively at passers by in your so endearing “what are you looking at” way remember this.

When I look in your direction at you, yes you in your designer baggy trackie bottoms and £100 trainers with your hoodies and silly hats the wrong way round sitting in your wide wheeled 1.0 Nova on it’s fifth orbit of the town centre in the last half hour with it’s black glass, big tail pipe and floodlit underside going BBBMM BBBMMM TTSSCCHH TTSSCCHH BBBMMM BBBBBMMMMM TTTTSSCCHH BBMMMMM , it’s not an admiring glance I give you ….the look on my face ( and Moggy’s ) is saying “You complete To**ers” !

I have often wished though that I had the bottle to cruise sedately down the local High Street in the family car with some chums clad in full evening dress blasting out some Mahler or the 1812 at 130db, just for the hoot of it !!

Thanks for what must have been a lot of hard work, its good to be back.
Perhaps a little background as to the nature of the attack and the lengths you have had to got to to restore service would be of interest to the thechnophiles amongst us.

Welcome to the forum gyp, that story brought a smile on an otherwise wet and dull day, I have read before that Atcherley was quite a character.
Shame there are not so many around today or if there are we don’t get to hear of them.

Regards,
Phil A

Seen south east uk today

Airliners are not really my thing spotting wise but an unusual engine note will always get me looking skywards.

Unless I am very much mistaken she came directly over my home in north east Essex at 0830 bst today 3rd June. Heading due east towards the Clacton marker, what a sight and sound !

Can anyone confirm my sighting and ID ?

I think Sir Richard has a very valid point regarding the £2 he is prepared to pay.
When you consider the amount that the taxpayer had to fork out to build the thing in the first place and the government (i.e. taxpayers) cash that BA and in its previous incarnations over the years has pocketed, I think they have got a bit of a cheek to say that only they(BA) can decide the old girls fate.

This below is pasted from the BBC News website 05/05/03

“Minister’s interest in Concorde plan”

Could Concorde live on?
Trade secretary Patricia Hewitt says she is “very interested” in Sir Richard Branson’s bid to take over the running of Concorde.

British Airways is stopping the supersonic service later this year because it is no longer profitable.

But Sir Richard, owner of Virgin Atlantic, believes his company can make Concorde a success.

Ms Hewitt told BBC Radio 4’s the Westminster Hour she had not yet received a proposal from Sir Richard.

Concorde is a great ambassador to Britain and should be in the air and not broken up and sold

Sir Richard Branson
Virgin Atlantic
But she added: “I shall be very interested indeed to look at any proposition from Richard Branson.

“I haven’t had one yet but I will look at it and discuss the idea with Alistair Darling (the transport secretary).”

Asked why she believed BA had decided not to fly Concorde anymore Ms Hewitt said: “That is an extremely interesting and important question and one that I shall be very happy to discuss with Richard Branson.”

25 years left

Sir Richard claims he can make Concorde more profitable and cheaper for passengers and said his Virgin Group was “extremely determined” to keep it flying despite a plan by British Airways and Air France to halt flights from October.

Sir Richard, speaking at a press conference at Gatwick airport, said he hoped to hold talks with Ms Hewitt to ask for government intervention to prevent BA selling off the aircraft to museums and private firms.

“We do not think that it will be that difficult to make Concorde pay

Sir Richard Branson
He held out the possibility of an alliance between his group, BA and Air France.

Sir Richard said BA were being “obstructive” saying they were “concerned about Virgin making a success of it, having decided to close it down”.

He said: “We believe it has potential and as much as 20 to 25 years of good flying life left in it.

“Concorde is a great ambassador to Britain and should be in the air and not broken up and sold.”

Money spinner

Virgin’s plan would be to introduce a standard class fare, cheaper than current prices, but with first class becoming more expensive.

“However cheap you make the fares, we are never going to have enormous quantities of people being able to fly it. More people will be able to, but obviously most people will not.”

Sir Richard’s first priority now was to enter into talks with the government.

“We are not asking for any money from the government. We will just be asking the Government to intervene so that what was paid for by the British taxpayer is not broken up,”

Sir Richard said. “The interesting thing about Concorde is that it has been extremely profitable. They made something like three-quarters of a billion pounds out of Concorde.

“Maybe last year they might have had a difficult year… but last year was an exceptional year and you do not get rid of a beautiful plane for ever based on one year’s trading.

“We do not think that it will be that difficult to make Concorde pay.”

Publicity stunt

Speaking later to BBC News 24, Sir Richard denied the Concorde plan was a publicity stunt.

“We actually think that using Virgin’s flair for publicity and marketing skills, the team of people we have around us, the lower cost base, we can make a go of it.”

But, he added, Virgin would not be making a large cash offer for the fleet of planes, which, he said, had been handed to British Airways by the government for a nominal sum.

“We are willing to pay exactly what British Airways paid for it, which is £2.”

RE: Shorts Belfast

Junk and Politics eh?? I bet if the politics (and beancounters) hadn’t got in the way the RAF would be talking about another life extending re-fit/upgrade to their venerable fleet of Belfasts this very day. They would give their eye teeth to have that sort of extra lifting capacity in these troubled times.

Personally I miss not having them whistle over my house on air test from Southend. They looked ruddy huge lumbering around the north east Essex area at about 1500ft mind you, I could never tell if the odd feathered prop or circling round and round (and round) with the gear down was crew training……….. or another in flight failure !!