Concorde's last arrival
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This got rejected by the screeners at www.airliners.net
Apparently it failed on the following counts:
1)quality
2)motive
3)level
4)grainy
nick
Apparently it failed on the following counts:
1)quality
2)motive
3)level
4)grainy
nick
nick francis said:
This got rejected by the screeners at www.airliners.net
Apparently it failed on the following counts:
1)quality
2)motive
3)level
4)grainy
nick
Apparently it failed on the following counts:
1)quality
2)motive
3)level
4)grainy
nick
They should have gone to Specsavers...
Cracking image - I like it.
Chris
chris.mapey said:
nick francis said:
This got rejected by the screeners at www.airliners.net
Apparently it failed on the following counts:
1)quality
2)motive
3)level
4)grainy
nick
Apparently it failed on the following counts:
1)quality
2)motive
3)level
4)grainy
nick
They should have gone to Specsavers...
Cracking image - I like it.
Chris
Chris
Edited to add
A very poor quality image snapped by me just after take off from Heathrow. The noise
I'm not an avid plane fan but this machine had so much character, much more than the sum of its parts.Edited by CVP on Friday 24th August 09:15
Others much more knowledgeable than me can give the exact reason but in a roundabout way I understand the following;
1. Replacement parts no longer being made by the French company that used to make them after Air France retired their Concordes,
2. No longer having a certificate enabling them to fly (? air worthiness certificate).
If I recall right there was a lot of political posturing between BA and the French bascially blaming the French support and them saying BA would not pay enough for the support now they did not have the Air France business too and also Branson coming in with his last minute bid to gain publicity when it was pretty clear they were never going to fly again.
I think that before the announcement of retiring the plane BA was not making any money out of Concorde but after the announcement the laast 2 years or so were very profitable as lots of folk wanted to go before they stopped flying. In a way a nice easy solution for BA to retire the planes and blame someone else.
As an aside we made our decision to fly after the announcement of the retirement as we were walking through Kew Gardens and one flew overhead landing into Heathrow. At the time for both of us it cost us 50% of our total worldly savings, we were pretty scared about having spent that much. Now I look back on that one trip back from NY with great affection and am so glad we said "sod it let's do it", it's a memory that will not fade
My learning from this - sometimes it pays to be sensibly stupid
Cheers
Chris
1. Replacement parts no longer being made by the French company that used to make them after Air France retired their Concordes,
2. No longer having a certificate enabling them to fly (? air worthiness certificate).
If I recall right there was a lot of political posturing between BA and the French bascially blaming the French support and them saying BA would not pay enough for the support now they did not have the Air France business too and also Branson coming in with his last minute bid to gain publicity when it was pretty clear they were never going to fly again.
I think that before the announcement of retiring the plane BA was not making any money out of Concorde but after the announcement the laast 2 years or so were very profitable as lots of folk wanted to go before they stopped flying. In a way a nice easy solution for BA to retire the planes and blame someone else.
As an aside we made our decision to fly after the announcement of the retirement as we were walking through Kew Gardens and one flew overhead landing into Heathrow. At the time for both of us it cost us 50% of our total worldly savings, we were pretty scared about having spent that much. Now I look back on that one trip back from NY with great affection and am so glad we said "sod it let's do it", it's a memory that will not fade
My learning from this - sometimes it pays to be sensibly stupid
Cheers
Chris
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