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Old 3rd Oct 2015, 23:47
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fdcg27
 
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Amazing what can be done when cost isn't an issue.
The B-36 is an enormous machine featuring six big pusher radials and a couple of turbojets just hung off the wing.
Concorde was a remarkable aircraft given that it was a mid 'sixties design.
Gorgeous to look at and capable of carrying a hundred odd Champagne swilling caviar on toast munching pax across the Atlantic at mach 2.
I'd love to see her fly again, but the cost would greatly exceed one hundred million pounds.
That money would be better spent in preserving the remaining examples, most of which are in really bad condition.
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