Concorde
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- robbob
What is this obsession with concorde? just a bloody plane. BBC are live for the last flight. Would they be live in Maccas dished out the last Big Mac, or were they there when VW rolled out the last original beetle a few months ago?
- jevad0
It's a wonder of modern flight and a British Institution you phillistine
- robbob0
So was the paper clip but no-ones doing a live feed from there are they
- vespa0
it's a piece of aviation/engineering/british history. There will no longer be supersonic travel available to us (or rich people anyway).
- jevad0
; )
- unknown0
Typical of this country at the moment... one step back.
- ********0
'scuse me for taking the wind from the sails of the patriotic...
BUT
Concorde is as French as it is British, in the same way that I am as Swiss as Socttish ;)
- robbob0
are they doing a big song and dance in paris as well?
- unknown0
they're just smoking copious amounts of tabs... and quaffing fine wines...
It's true that it was a french / brit thing.. also true that the money invested in it was actually public money!
- vespa0
indicative of french/british relations perhaps?
- jox0
I agree, what's the big deal - the plane is an old fart anyway, it's not that modern anymore, apart from it's speed.
And they're tiny as hell, there's no such thing as leg room, and they're noisy as f-ck.
- robbob0
cunning bastard - nice one
- ********0
who ate all the....
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supersonic biscuits
;)
- stimuli0
Ooh la la oignon concorde formidable garlic and all that crap.
- unknown0
still the most advanced commercial airline out there, even if it is 40 years old. It had fly by wire from the start, still not in boeings.
the 747 was developed at the same time, bet the wish the british government had invested in that instead though
- vespa0
going to be Airbus from now on.. even the US is buying them now. will it be bye bye boeing?
- unknown0
"indicative of french/british relations perhaps?"
vespa, if you're asking if it spells some kind of doom between french and british relations currently, no.
It's not a political thing. It's expensive to fly, the planes are old, and fewer people are flying on it.
It's not like the french and british government is saying, 'we disagreed on Iraq, so we're shutting down Concorde."
- vespa0
tongue in cheek mg33. I was commenting on how relations were tight enough 30 years ago to develop innovative engineering together, whereas now they are decidedly worse.
- unknown0
that's what I thought you meant, about the relations when it was created. pretty impressive.
but I also thought you were just trying to be funny.
you know how that is.
- Mimio0
The Concorde in a way encapsulates the "Living in the Future" mentality of the sixties. It's like saying good bye to some people's vision of the future.