pslewis

Concorde flies for the first time!

The supersonic airliner, Concorde, has made a "faultless" maiden flight.
The Anglo-French plane took off from Toulouse and was in the air for just 27 minutes before the pilot made the decision to land.

The first pilot, Andre Turcat, said on his return to the airport: "Finally the big bird flies, and I can say now that it flies pretty well."

Brilliant Aeroplane ..... will one of those projects EVER be carried out in the UK again?

Despite the costs and delays it gave the Nation something to focus on - we desperately need something like that these days!

Pete

Jye

Well we had the Millenium Dome, it was a fantastic project, good value as well

Wonder what bunch of turkeys thought up that one

D8UGF

Thought you were going to say "Received my first pension payment" for a moment there Pete.

Dougie

vindaloo

Much prefer the London Eye myself. No spin or public announcement b*ll*x.

The idea seemed to get developed properly and it was built with apparently little fuss.

'course they got the air-con wrong but.....

J.

Scoob99

iTrader: (1)

Will never forgot that day Pete, we lived over the main runway, and when it flew by everything in the house shook Why O Why did they not let Richard Branson have a go with it.
Cheers
Colin

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

How about that stupid tower they are building in Portsmouth! is that destined to go the same way as the thingy dome????

Vegescoob

Progress, at least in transport, seems to be a dirty word these days.
I would like to be able to fly to the other side of the world in 12 hours.

GaryK

Doubt it, no financial institutions would take the risk and if it did it would be shipped out to wherever the cheapest labour costs are to build it and the whole thing done on shoestring budget.

O and the computer systems side of it would be over-complex, over schedule and over budget!


Gary