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: --------------------------------- 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. > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT DOC UK Website: www.delorean.co.uk Unsubscribe: doc-uk-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ** Unless otherwise stated, all messages posted to the group are assumed public and may be printed in the club magazine ** Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk