Concorde to fly again

[FN-GM]

BBC News - Work starts in £15m plan to get Concorde flying

 

What do you guys think about this?

[sted]

hooray

 

a triumph of engineering and it just looks like it going fast without moving it was a sad day when they were grounded and the noise is great (now im sure if it was over my house everyday i may be less impressed but still)

[nicholab]

Flew over my house and school every day at 11.00 loved it!

[laserblazer]

The Rolls Royce engines of the former Air France Concorde will undergo an initial examination to see what work needs to be done to start the engines.

 

A new battery and some jump leads should do it. Possibly a squirt of WD40.

[BTCC_Fan]

And who is paying for this?

[FN-GM]

There was a private group who kept an Air France one almost airworthy. They kept the body work in top condition etc. But they could with the engines. I am wondering if this is the one.

 

Oh they where not for sale in the end. Thats why Richard Branson couldn't buy them. The British ones still belong to BA officially.

Edited May 29, 2010 by FN-GM

[joe90bass]

A new battery and some jump leads should do it. Possibly a squirt of WD40.

 

and a hammer, a good whack fixes most things!

[witch]

I think it is a brilliant idea - they were iconic and incredible. Small though, I remember being in a 747 taxi-ing at Heathrow and passing one - it was half the size of the plane I was in!

They are too fuel hungry to be used commercially but they should certainly be kept flying

[computer_expert]

There was a private group who kept an Air France one almost airworthy. They kept the body work in top condition etc. But they could with the engines. I am wondering if this is the one.

 

Oh they where not for sale in the end. Thats why Richard Branson couldn't buy them. The British ones still belong to BA officially.

 

On an aviation site i visit, it looks as though F-BTSD may be the one that will be used judging by the posts.

[Rydra]

65 years later, we still fly an avro lancaster bomber, spitfires and hurricanes. There is also one or two Vulcan bombers lying around still airworthy. To see these wonderful craft never fly again would be a travesty. I'm glad someone is doing it! I will however laugh like hell when the pilot of concord goes to tip his wing over the london main olympic stadium, and pips the throttle past the sound barrier at low altitude

[FN-GM]

Does anyone know if anything come from this?

 

Thanks

[Little-Miss]

Tinie Tempah would be happy....

[webman]

I've had this piece of news on my radar too, but I don't think it'll ever get off the ground.

[glennda]

Has anybody seen this news BBC News - Continental 'responsible' for Concorde crash in 2000

[FN-GM]

A few years on now and nothing happened, what a shame

[SYNACK]

Funny, this was on Slashdot yesterday:

Flight 4590 Didn't Kill the Concorde; Costs Did - Slashdot

 

"If the plane were around today — which some still fantasize about — it'd be like powering a stretch Hummer with dolphin blood. The airlines couldn't sell enough tickets on the small plane to even make up for the amount of fuel it needed to guzzle on its journeys, let alone cover maintenance for the technological marvel. (A Concorde's taxi to the end of a runway used as much fuel as a 737's flight from London to Amsterdam.) Customers were fine with ordinary travel times for a fraction of the airfare and the plane only took transatlantic journeys, because going over land was too disturbing. Too much noise."

 

It is a shame that nothing better and more efficient has come along yet, atmosphere bouncing spaceplanes are still far off, scramjets still melt from friction and supercavitation has not been sorted for planes yet.