What's Concorde?

[onyx39]

bluebear said:

the only reason these air craft are not still flying is because of spineless operators

Think you will find it was the parts suppliers....

[bluebear]

onyx39 said:

Think you will find it was the parts suppliers....

NO spineless fools i tell you. Spineless fools

[mph1977]

onyx39 said:

Think you will find it was the parts suppliers....

Concorde now has no Design Authority thanks Airbus!

[Hooli]

onyx39 said:

bluebear said:

the only reason these air craft are not still flying is because of spineless operators

Think you will find it was the parts suppliers....

Who wouldn't supply spines?

[onyx39]

Hooli said:

onyx39 said:

bluebear said:

the only reason these air craft are not still flying is because of spineless operators

Think you will find it was the parts suppliers....

Who wouldn't supply spines?

they could not put the parts in the boxes to ship, because they were quivering wrecks on the floors of French warehouses.....

[T0nup]

It is sad... Concorde, and if you think about it, the Shuttle.

Both scapped (To all intent and purpose) with no viable, more technologically advanced replacement. In terms of the human race actually going anywhere, or doing anything, we've taken giant leaps backward.

[Eric Mc]

Said it here before. The Shuttle was a disaster in almost every respect as regards to proper space exploration and ease of access to space.

Hopefully, the new manned systems that are coming along will be far more flexible, opractical, and cost effective than Shuttle was,

[mattviatura]

T0nup said:

In terms of the human race actually going anywhere, or doing anything, we've taken giant leaps backward.

I agree with this. A psychological step backwards which as far as I know is a recent human trait.

The economic arguments cannot be ignored, but it doesn't stop me thinking that what happened with the Concorde fleet was ineffably sad.

[onyx39]

Eric Mc said:

Hopefully, the new manned systems that are coming along will be far more flexible, opractical, and cost effective than Shuttle was,

Will we have long to wait Eric? are they imminent?

[mph1977]

Eric Mc said:

Said it here before. The Shuttle was a disaster in almost every respect as regards to proper space exploration and ease of access to space.
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NASA presented the Shuttle as the 'DC-3 moment' or even the 'Comet / 707 monent' when it was barely the equivalent to Alcock and Brown

[Eric Mc]

onyx39 said:

Eric Mc said:

Hopefully, the new manned systems that are coming along will be far more flexible, opractical, and cost effective than Shuttle was,

Will we have long to wait Eric? are they imminent?

Yes.

I expect the Dragom capsule to be taking humans into space within 5 years.

Don't forget there was a 5 year gap between the last Apollo flight and the first Shuttle.

[Pugster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xddjYJBiQlc&fea...

Seems I've got some dust in my eyes after watching that.

How can something man made provoke such emotion?

[sussexjob]

Kudos said:

Was watching celeb big brother last night. Some bloke on there, mid twenties was asked to put a flag in a map showing where Australia was and USA.

He marked Australia in west Africa and USA was eastern Russia. Now that shows a lack of education...

Lot of Americans think New Zealand is where Ireland is and Ireland is where NZ is..

[Eric Mc]

Isn't it?

[Ian Lancs]

onyx39 said:

bluebear said:

the only reason these air craft are not still flying is because of spineless operators

Think you will find it was the parts suppliers....

Think you'll find the regulators made such stupid demands that the manufacturers couldn't support without bankrupting themselves, which the operators couldn't support as the farepayers sure as hell wouldn't (even for the prestige of flying Mach 2+)

[onyx39]

Ian Lancs said:

onyx39 said:

bluebear said:

the only reason these air craft are not still flying is because of spineless operators

Think you will find it was the parts suppliers....

Think you'll find the regulators made such stupid demands that the manufacturers couldn't support without bankrupting themselves, which the operators couldn't support as the farepayers sure as hell wouldn't (even for the prestige of flying Mach 2+)

I think in some ways, Concorde was killed by technology. Why fly to New York for that all important meeting when you can hold the meeting on a web conference,

[bluebear]

onyx39 said:

Ian Lancs said:

onyx39 said:

bluebear said:

the only reason these air craft are not still flying is because of spineless operators

Think you will find it was the parts suppliers....

Think you'll find the regulators made such stupid demands that the manufacturers couldn't support without bankrupting themselves, which the operators couldn't support as the farepayers sure as hell wouldn't (even for the prestige of flying Mach 2+)

I think in some ways, Concorde was killed by technology. Why fly to New York for that all important meeting when you can hold the meeting on a web conference,

very fair point very well made.

[XB70]

onyx39 said:

I think in some ways, Concorde was killed by technology. Why fly to New York for that all important meeting when you can hold the meeting on a web conference,

Exactly this.

Sustained Mach 2+ flight for 100 people, in comfort and luxury, day in day out for decades with only one fatal crash is an astonishing acheivement.

To my dying day it will be my regret that I did not go on it when it was operational.

[wijit]

"what's this dad?"
" A cassette tape, son"
"what does it do?"
"Plays music"
"so, do you use it like a violin or a guitar?"

[miniman]

XB70 said:

Exactly this.

Sustained Mach 2+ flight for 100 people, in comfort and luxury, day in day out for decades with only one fatal crash is an astonishing acheivement.

To my dying day it will be my regret that I did not go on it when it was operational.

I had a trip to the US when BA were offering those special price one way flights right at the end of its lifespan and my boss at the time was happy for me to pay the difference in cost, which I think was about £1500. I hummed and harred about it for a few days by which time the deal was sold out. Always regretted not just banging in the credit card.