The Concorde will fly again !!!

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The air museum of Le Bourget (near Paris) just announced that it has secured enough funds to finance airworthiness status for one of its Concorde aircraft.

Following extensive maintenance and testing, the aircraft performed taxiing and engine run-up procedures.

The first flight is scheduled for June and will comemmorate 40 years of flying for the Concorde.

The beautiful, mach 2 airplane was designed by the French and the British in 1965 !!!
 
That's great news. I am tired of going backwards. Bring on the 50 year old technology that's better than we have today!
 
Armageddon Aviator said:
The air museum of Le Bourget (near Paris) just announced that it has secured enough funds to finance airworthiness status for one of its Concorde aircraft.

Following extensive maintenance and testing, the aircraft performed taxiing and engine run-up procedures.

The first flight is scheduled for June and will comemmorate 40 years of flying for the Concorde.

The beautiful, mach 2 airplane was designed by the French and the British in 1965 !!!
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That's great news -- although it's sad that we can't seem to build anything to match Concorde's amazing performance anymore.

Kinda like the NASA engineers that are designing the new moon rocket. According the Air & Space magazine, they've actually had to get some old Apollo heat shield material out of the Smithsonian to see if they can reverse-engineer what the old timers created back in the early '60s -- cuz no one knows how to make that stuff anymore.
 
Jay Honeck said:
That's great news -- although it's sad that we can't seem to build anything to match Concorde's amazing performance anymore.
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The Concorde had horrible performance when you consider the economics of it. The only reason it flew as long as it did was that it was operated by State airlines and supported by tax money and that only happened because you had two competing nations operating it and for one to quit before the other would have been giving a nod to the other that they were doing better, and if you have any knowledge of the history of France and Great Britain, you know that would never happen. If not for that, the Concorde would have gone out of service in the first 70s fuel crunch. We can build far better now especially with regards to efficiency but it still does nothing to solve the sonic boom issues which limited the Concorde's supersonic routes to transoceanic. Boeing built a perfectly good SST, but since their customers were commercial airlines, and the subsonic restrictions over the CONUS, the project died.

Sub Orbital Hypersonic is forward, SST atmospheric is backwards.
 
Anthony said:
That's great news. I am tired of going backwards. Bring on the 50 year old technology that's better than we have today!
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Remember that we can't reproduce (allegedly :cornut:) going to the moon like we did in 1969, 40 (gasp!) years ago. :incazzato:
 
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