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Old 29th May 2006, 07:57
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saman
 
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Sorry Fish@BY, the barge is her final resting place. I also visited Intrepid this year and whilst Concorde was 'visitable' she really looked sad. So did most of the aircraft on Intrepid's deck - for example it's so sad to see a Scimitar going rusty. Parking aeroplanes on a widswept deck or barge on a tidal, salty riverbank does not seem like a good recipe for long term preservation to me. As a tourist attraction in NYC, as a museum to the space race and to maintain US patriotic fervour, it has its place, but not as an aircraft preservation centre - IMHO.
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