What's Concorde?
Discussion
miniman said:
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.
A work colleague did this too, except he got his trip, but hadn't realised that the booze in the Concorde lounge was free, had a couple of beers to celebrate, followed by a couple of glasses of wine, followed, of course by the champagne. Was asleep by take off time,and slept through the majority of the transatlantic crossing.Penis !
miniman said:
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.
I was going to fly from Sydney up to London, do a transatlantic flight to NY and back, then back to Sydney - all in the space of a week!I spent the money buying a Subaru SVX as everyone said "why rush? There is plenty of time to do that". Then the crash and subsequent cancellation.
T0nup said:
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.
What exactly was the shuttle enabling us to do? Where was it enabling us to go?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.
Pothole said:
hat exactly was the shuttle enabling us to do? Where was it enabling us to go?
that was the problem , NASA hyped the Shuttle as the 'DC3 moment' , if not the '707 moment' of manned space flight when realistically it was Bleriot crossing the channel or Alcock and Brown flying the Atlantic.Pothole said:
hat exactly was the shuttle enabling us to do? Where was it enabling us to go?
It was a heavy, manned space truck which could land on a runway. That was its sole purpose.The lesson we have learned from the Shuttle are -
heavy lifters to low earth orbit do not need to be and should not be manned
spacecraft do not need wings. They are superfluos to spaceflight and represent a huge amount of dead weight that compromises the capability and safety of the spacecraft - with no added space capability.
DieselGriff said:
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,
I would ask the thousands of people who still fly to meetings across the world.I went on Concorde three times: once a Bay of Bsicay fligh and then to Paris and back, with a diversion over the Atlantic to go supersonic.
I still have the flight safety card somewhere
Simon
Pugster said:
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?
Oh man that gave me goose bumps. I flew Concorde in its final weeks from JFK to LHR with my girlfriend, now wife. It was on her birthday, the trip was a surprise present for her. I also sat in the co-pilot seat of one during a visit to BA at LHR in '89. Good times... Seems I've got some dust in my eyes after watching that.
How can something man made provoke such emotion?
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