mart360

No more of this



THey brought the Vulcan back,

we ought to do the same for concorde


Mart

Chip

I was lucky enough to be working at the end of the runway at Heathrow when Concorde took off and have to say it was an awesome sight and sound.

Moley

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I'd love to see it back, but BA won't let it happen.

jods

BA Bloody Ar5eholes.

scoobygaz1

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Seen this a few times when I was in reading awesome sound

RobsyUK

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There was a guy on the radio talking about this. He has written 2 books about why they ended etc and it wasnt because they went broke.

Apparently there is hard evidece that BA was making a profit but France were not. They didnt want BA to go it alone so had to end it all.

Recently the concords in the museums are still flight worthy - the inspectors were shocked.

zip106

Still generated a fantastic profit, right up tp the 2000 crash.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24629451

Ant

Even Branson was interested in them, BA you *******

CrisPDuk

To be fair it wasn't entirely BA's fault they were grounded. It was pretty much forced upon them by Airbus' decision to discontinue maintenance support, that in turn was probably a political decision resulting from the grounding of the Air France aircraft

Leslie

At air display fuel weight the Vulcan would easily go truly vertical off the runway!

I do miss it too.

Les

^Qwerty^

I doubt that.

That video doesn't look like the last take off either (JFK?), not that it matters, I'd agree with the sentiment of the OP.

andy97

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The Telegragh has this article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/tr...in-london.html

JackClark

It should fly again, I've flown in many aircraft but Concorde will always be my favourite. Supersonic Gin and Tonic.

^Qwerty^

I can't believe that anyone would give column inches to such a load of drivel. What is this club that has £120M?

Dr Hu

Aviation took a big step backwards when Concorde was grounded IMO

I would imagine a campaign to return it to the sky a la Vulcan would be quite popular.

dpb

Elitist nonsense really , you got internet now !