Concorde G-BOAB
An artists impression showing Concorde on a pontoon on the Thames appeared in yesterday's Metro newspaper.
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Here's the dilemma:
If it is covered it will be less of an attraction;
If it is left uncovered it will not be a Concorde long.
I don't know which it will be but BA has a pretty poor record when it comes to their involvement in historic aircraft preservation.
If it is covered it will be less of an attraction;
If it is left uncovered it will not be a Concorde long.
I don't know which it will be but BA has a pretty poor record when it comes to their involvement in historic aircraft preservation.
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If it is left uncovered it will not be a Concorde long.
Best example I can think of in the UK would be G-ASGB at Duxford, still looking good after thirty years outside. I would expect G-BOAB to have even more TLC.
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Apologies if it's been done before. If I can find it I'll delete this thread.
I only found out about it last night from a retired BA Concorde captain who is involved in the project.
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Apologies if it's been done before. If I can find it I'll delete this thread.
I only found out about it last night from a retired BA Concorde captain who is involved in the project.
Dave
"If it is left uncovered it will not be a Concorde long"
Not so - I was on G-BOAD just last week & that is parked in the open on a warf beside the USS Intrepid on the Hudson River at New York & hell it was hot & humid while I was there! All said she looked in pretty good shape to me, well done all at the museum.
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Not so - I was on G-BOAD just last week & that is parked in the open on a warf beside the USS Intrepid on the Hudson River at New York & hell it was hot & humid while I was there! All said she looked in pretty good shape to me, well done all at the museum.
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Could Concorde be put on a motorized pontoon and moved around the Thames, say some time moored by the London Eye and then parked alongside the London City Airport runway.
Make a few SLFs wake up as they taxi in/out.
Tourist boats could moor up where ever it is and their passengers make a paying visit.
Also O2 Concerts etc.
Make a few SLFs wake up as they taxi in/out.
Tourist boats could moor up where ever it is and their passengers make a paying visit.
Also O2 Concerts etc.
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..she looked in pretty good shape to me...
How many large static aircraft have we lost to corrosion in recent years?
Concorde wouldn't last another twenty years - and that just isn't good enough.
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Pleased to hear G-BOAD is still surviving in good order; that's the one I flew in (BAH-LHR 1976 I think, when one half was in Singapore Airlines colours).
Shame it's in New York.
Shame it's in New York.
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Could Concorde be put on a motorized pontoon and moved around the Thames, say some time moored by the London Eye and then parked alongside the London City Airport runway.
