They are making great progress and now have the 4 required flightworthy engines.

Be interesting to get a feel for the size of the task ahead, is it a 1 year or 5 year project?

I wonder why they have not started to think outside of the box for funding: they can’t use volunteers day to day, well why not change your funding model.

Display the aircraft at Airshows for free, but then have a massive team of volunteers with buckets collecting as the punters leave….or as she is flying.

We’ve given them a lifeline, we’ve all chipped in with another handfull of tenners.

Now its time for TVOC to change and adapt to the current economic climate – Time to look very hard at your operation and make savings wherever you can so that the Vulcan does stay in the air for the next 10-15 years, not the next 10-15 months.

The point is that when you consider the other museums in the UK or around the world that would have taken great care of Concorde, one does get annoyed when the people they were given to neglect them somewhat

Not to state the obvious….gear door misbehaved on Monday, but was not checked fully before Wed to find out what the fault possibly was?

Final Set

Just back from todays events. Really impressive sight. Shame about the Gear door causing problems for the testing, but was a massive bouns for everyone who came out as we were treated to 4 or 5 circuits with a flyover at 100ft each time.

Here are a bunch of pics form today. Going by the amount of people there with proper cameras, I’m sure there will be some really great pics coming up, but I though people might want to get a quick feel for the day so here goes…. Pics are copyright free, do what you want with them…just don’t pass off as your own!

BA’s stated goal is for G-BOAb to be displayed down in the Terminal5 areas, but this will not be until after construction has finished. They need to know operationally how the the new ramp and taxi areaa works before a spot is chosen for ‘AB.

Failing all this, she could be shipped to a museum, like G-BOAA (East Fortune) or G-BBDG (Brooklands) were, but there really are not a lot of museums in the UK with the sort of funds required to do this work…even if BA were to help as they did with AA and DG, recently 30K was a struggle for the Bournemouth 1-11, to move Concorde would be a factor of 10 more expensive.

BA made a wise decision in 2003 to keep all their 8 Concordes. They could have scrapped the historically significant G-BBDG and offered G-BOAA to Brookands with G-BOAB going to East Fortune, but you have to agree that they did the right thing. Their biggest problem was 8 Concorde’s but only 7 interiors!