Hi all,

The campaign to get Concorde flying again has attracted 2,000
signatures this week!

Please add your support at www.save-concorde.com.

To sum up the situation:
- we aren't arguing with the reasons Concorde went out of service - the
airframes were over 25 years old, whereas the average age of British
Airways fleet is less than five years

- Airbus receives billions of Euros every year in subsidy - it has a
duty to build the best planes it can for the people of Europe

- the A380 and A350 (which hasn't yet started) are highly questionable
projects

- fresh Concorde air-frames could be built by Airbus at modest cost,

PLEASE add your support to the petition at www.save-concorde.com

benbo

It was not feasible at $2 a gallon, so what makes you think it will fly at
$3 a gallon?

It takes money, not signatures.

trevor fenn

WOFTAM

jim

I give up, what connection to NAVAL AVIATION does this subject apply too?

ACC USN ret.
NKX, BIKF, NAB, CV-63, NIR
67-69 69-71 71-74 77-80 80-85
&
74-77

Founder: RAMN (rec.aviation.military.naval)

gk

- Lets build space shuttles instead of Concorde (Buran airframes can
be purchased for a bottle of vodka), if Airbus has money to burn.
They're much faster and fuel consumption is similar...

If you put a hook on it it might make one Hell of COD!!!!! :-)

Bill Kambic
Haras Lucero, Kingston, TN
Mangalarga Marchador: Uma Raça, Uma Paixão

greasy rider

On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:06:50 -0400, Jim <chief_jim@go.com>
postulated :

The Concorde has flown over water.

robert chambers

It's a quaint idea in theory but why would you want to rebuild to 30
year old technology? If there's a market for supersonic passenger air
travel Airbus and Boeing will be designing and building one. Fuel is
not going to get any less expensive so unless there's some technological
breakthrough that gets you supersonic without burning as much kerosine
as Concorde did I don't see it happening.

Business travelers that want to get somewhere fast have loads of small
jet options to chose from. Some of them are right up near mach 1

The concorde was and is a beautiful looking plane both on the ground and
in the air.

Robert

andrew venor

If Airbus is that flush with cash they would be better off starting from
a blank cad screen and build a new plane with modern technology instead
of trying to reuse a 1960's design.

ALV

ob

I kinda wonder about that - it seems the SR-71 wasn't improved by CAD
otherwise they would've done "something better". Sometimes the original is
often the best...

OB