Re: [doc] CONCORDE VS DELOREAN

[Paul Salsbury <paul.salsbury@xxxx>]

I agree that Concorde should stay in the air, however
it is not BA who are stopping Richard Branson, but
Airbus, Who maintain the fleet are revoking the Type
approval at the end of the month, so it will not have
the air-worthy Licence for anyone to fly.

Paul ****crawls out from under his stone*****

--- Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx>
wrote: 
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Concorde truly is an engineering masterpiece and
there's a sense of 
national price in it over here. There's also an
overwhealming sense of 
utter irritation that BA have grounded it, especially
as Richard Branson 
offered to buy them for Virgin Atlantic to operate,
but BA refused. They 
don't think it's ecomomical to operate any more, but
they sure as hell 
don't want Branson to prove them wrong. The result is
that one of the 
greatest technical feats of engineering of the 20th
century will be left 
as a museum piece when it could still be used.

Martin

yellowmanwell wrote:

>Ok - and this may have been mentioned before but I
felt it 
>particularly pertinent at the moment since everyone
is banging on 
>about Concorde's final flight. I made an interesting
discovery today. 
>I was talking to a guy who worked in financial
circles in the past 
>and he reckons that when taking into account
research, development 
>etc, each Concorde cost the government about
£1.32billion. (I believe 
>they sold each Concorde to BA for about a pound).
During their 
>working lives each Concorde brought in about £600
million. Which 
>leaves about a £700 million gap on EACH OPERATING
CONCORDE. Does 
>anyone notice anything significant about people
continually moaning 
>about a few quid that DMC (ok ganted, a few million
quid) blew away 
>in the few years it was operating. I am quite willing
to agree that 
>these figures may be approx. but even so there is a
hefty deficit.
>
>Yeah ok, so Concorde might look cool, but does it
have gull wing 
>doors? I think not.
> 
>




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