Concorde could fly again!!!

**flagg** · 31st May 2010, 07:25 PM

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

I'm so happy about this. An engineering marvel.

**Bundalene** · 31st May 2010, 07:51 PM

There is a Concorde at the Sinsheim museum in Germany. A most remarkable aeroplane. You can walk through it, as well as the Tupolev TU-144, the Russian equivalent of the Concorde. One surprising thing is how narrow the body of the plane is.

Anyone planning to visit Germany should allow the best part of a day for this Museum.

Erich

**Hall** · 31st May 2010, 08:11 PM

Yeah apparently only under a heritage licence.So limited flights only.Still getting it back into the air would be good.The Russians were the first to bulid a super sonic passenger jet.Was a show that revealed how they were stitched up at a Paris air show.So there plane was shelved.Was at the time a far better plane.Such was the cold war politics of the time.
Cheers Hall

**LandyAndy** · 31st May 2010, 08:40 PM

Good news!!!
Such a modern looking plane till you see how old it really is by looking in the ancient flightdeck!!!
Thanks for the pics.
Andrew

**coops71** · 31st May 2010, 11:25 PM

I got to walk through and around a test Concorde in the UK at a place I remember as Fleet Air Arm. This was in 1980 when I was 9 years old. Still vivid in my mind.

**d3syd** · 1st June 2010, 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Good news!!!
Such a modern looking plane till you see how old it really is by looking in the ancient flightdeck!!!
Thanks for the pics.
Andrew

My thoughts exactly. Looks almost WWII ....

**solmanic** · 1st June 2010, 07:38 AM

Great news. I may get to have a fly in one yet.

A couple of years ago I went the the Scottish Museum of Flight just outside Edinburgh and did the Concorde tour through G-BOAA. This was one of the last decommissioned ones so it had the latest interior fitout. Very nice but the seats were quite small compared to regular business class.

A few weeks later I went and saw G-AXDN at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. This was a pre-production test bed and the difference was staggering. 1960s feel throughout - it felt ancient. I am amazed how essentially the same plane could be both so old and so new at the same time.

**p38arover** · 1st June 2010, 07:44 AM

I felt the same about the one I went through last year in Seattle.

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 1st June 2010, 07:48 AM

I saw one take off over Botany Bay once,, we were in Port Botany (Prince of Wales drive?) and the damn thing was still trying to get airborn as it went past us

and small!!!

**Lotz-A-Landies** · 1st June 2010, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by Hall

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The Russians were the first to bulid a super sonic passenger jet. Was a show that revealed how they were stitched up at a Paris air show.
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Hall

I'm not quite sure that the claim the Russians (actually Soviets at the time) were the first to build a supersonic passenger jet. The Concordski started development two years after the Anglo-French Concorde, it beat Concorde into the air for it's first flight by a mere two months, but was the first to exceed Mach two. However that's hardly a claim of first build. It was such a poor copy of Concorde in flight that it had to add canard winglets to overcome low speed problems and increase lift.

The Concordski was two years behind Concorde to enter scheduled service but only flew 55 scheduled passenger flights (before being relegated to a freight aircraft for the remaining 47 flights), while Concorde's 14 (British Airlines and Air France) aircraft flew daily services for 27 years.

I know which one I'd give my tick of approval, and it's not the Concordski.

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