Digidave - Thanks for confirming!

It was a sweet and spontaneous moment and I'm glad I've managed to find a picture of it - it'll go in my personal collection, a happier memory alongside largely sadder ones. :ok: :ugh:

Digidave - sorry :E

willbav8r - yes, the Intrepid is that bad. They've let several airframes lapse into quite an awful state and were recently trying to get rid of a French Etendard they'd been gifted because 'the French won't look after it for us' or some such guff. It also does not bode well for the future of G-BOAD that the Intrepid people claimed to have visited Duxford to get advice about preserving a Concorde... and said Duxford's Concorde had to put up with much worse climate conditions!! Oh yes, Cambridge is famous for its New York style winters and the river that runs directly underneath the superhangar must be very well hidden.

I went to the INTREPID last year and the only place I can see where they can put it is right at the STERN END of the flight deck and they will have some fun trying to get it on board or even trying to get it from JFK by road on loaders???:D :D :D

I guess my last visit to the Intrepid was pre 9/11. Sorry to hear things are dilapidated - hope the Conc will change all that (?).

As for the climactic conditions.....agreed. Worrying.

And the Etendard; mebbe a rebellion against things Frog? :ok:

I'm sure that I read somewhere that someone wanted to use several aircraft for research connected with future hypersonic travel, operating them from Scotland when required, but letting them sit in museums for much of the year. Can someone point me at what I read, or did I dream it?

Isn't the real reason for BA's decision its belief that profits on subsonic business class will now be much higher, because no-one will go and fly Concorde instead, and isn't that exactly why the prospect of Branson operating them such an anathema?