Once upon a time -- around about 10/19/03 16:07 --
possibly wrote:


So when is the final flight from or to London? And where do I stand?
Final arrival is 24 Oct forever. Three Concordes will arrive 90 seconds
apart, taxi to the maintenance bay for a special retirement ceremony. See
concordesst.com

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CMOT TMPV wrote in message
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Once upon a time -- around about 10/19/03 16:07 --
possibly wrote:


So when is the final flight from or to London? And where do I stand?
Final arrival is 24 Oct forever. Three Concordes will arrive 90 seconds
apart, taxi to the maintenance bay for a special retirement ceremony. See
concordesst.com

-- E

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I think it would be fantastic if they could store a Concorde in T5, seems a
bit odd but hey! Heathrow is the home for Concorde :-)

daveF

dave F wrote:

I think it would be fantastic if they could store a Concorde in T5,
seems a bit odd but hey! Heathrow is the home for Concorde :-)

Nooooo... Filton is the home of Concorde. They were born there and those
that don't survive will, no doubt, go there to die

Stimpy wrote:
dave F wrote:

I think it would be fantastic if they could store a Concorde in T5,
seems a bit odd but hey! Heathrow is the home for Concorde :-)


Nooooo... Filton is the home of Concorde. They were born there and those
that don't survive will, no doubt, go there to die



And...the only chance of keeping at least 1 Concorde flying for special
occasions will be if they do retire one at Filton where they've got the
people and facilities there to service her.

Does anyone know if BA have officially announced the retirement plans yet?

Stevie wrote:

Nooooo... Filton is the home of Concorde. They were born there and
those that don't survive will, no doubt, go there to die

And...the only chance of keeping at least 1 Concorde flying for
special occasions will be if they do retire one at Filton where
they've got the people and facilities there to service her.

Does anyone know if BA have officially announced the retirement plans
yet?

http://www.concordesst.com/retire/diary.html seems to have a comprehensive
'diary' of events. It appears from there that the 'last ever' flight will
be G-BOAF from Heathrow to Filton on Nov 17th although the 'real' retirement
will be on October 24th when 3 Concordes land at LHR at 90 second intervals.

"dave F" wrote in message ...

I think it would be fantastic if they could store a Concorde in T5, seems a
bit odd but hey! Heathrow is the home for Concorde :-)

They could put a real one in front of the main tunnel entrance instead of
the model?

Henry

"Henry Nebrensky" wrote in message
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"dave F" wrote in message
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I think it would be fantastic if they could store a Concorde in T5,
seems a
bit odd but hey! Heathrow is the home for Concorde :-)

They could put a real one in front of the main tunnel entrance instead of
the model?

Perhaps that is the plan for disposing of the two non-flying Concordes
(G-BOAA and G-BOAB). The five flying examples have had their future homes
revealed but there has not yet been an announcement about the disposal of
these two. As they are not in a position to be flown out, perhaps one might
yet find itself in a display position at Heathrow.

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:35:24 -0700, Henry Nebrensky wrote:
They could put a real one in front of the main tunnel entrance instead of
the model?

Stacked with enough fuel and an elastic launch band to lift off from it's
standing position without a runway? That would be cool.

mind you, Concorde is cool. Blair can be in Washington in 4 hours, but it
takes Bush 6 to get here, just shows how much better the UK is. One (Two)
of them should be kept as a UK "Air Force One", the cost is minimal, the
prestige is high, and of course the leader (no matter how incompetent) of
our country deserves something decent to travel on, save Prescott be in
charge for a few hours

Paul Weaver wrote in message ...
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:35:24 -0700, Henry Nebrensky wrote:
They could put a real one in front of the main tunnel entrance instead of
the model?

Stacked with enough fuel and an elastic launch band to lift off from it's
standing position without a runway? That would be cool.

mind you, Concorde is cool. Blair can be in Washington in 4 hours, but it
takes Bush 6 to get here, just shows how much better the UK is. One (Two)
of them should be kept as a UK "Air Force One", the cost is minimal, the
prestige is high, and of course the leader (no matter how incompetent) of
our country deserves something decent to travel on, save Prescott be in
charge for a few hours.

I doubt the cost is minimal otherwise I'm sure BA would themselves be
keeping one or two planes for charters, other prestige stuff - and
political favours.

In article , Henry
Nebrensky writes
"dave F" wrote in message news:bmv36
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I think it would be fantastic if they could store a Concorde in T5, seems a
bit odd but hey! Heathrow is the home for Concorde :-)

They could put a real one in front of the main tunnel entrance instead of
the model?

Some years ago I met a US group at Heathrow to begin a tour. One of
the ladies thought that the model was the real thing and commented on
how tiny it was....... (Sad but true.)

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Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK
Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for
London & the Heart of England
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