Branson's £1m for Concorde to fly again

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Originally Posted by mirrodie

Seriously, I look at it two ways. We went through the time and effort to literally resurrect a warbird up in the ice, (was it Greenland, I forget) through pure fasication and love of the subject. Remember the bird I'm talking about? It fell away as part of a mission and froze up in a sheet of ice?

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Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning. It's going on tour this year across the globe with a P-51 flown by Ed Shipley. Check out ASB, they have alot of info on it. Dale Snodgrass wants to have a F-14 demo also, but as with Concorde, I'll beleive it when I see it.

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Originally Posted by GrummanFan

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Originally Posted by hiss srq

Why do we save Connies and let them fly around or spend the moolah to restore them is what I ask now. In my opinion if we can make connies fly why not put one or two concordes on the airshow circut or the special charter market?

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The technology behind a Connie is a hell of alot different compared to a Concord. There are alot of old warbirds still flying because that technology is a little "simpler" to restore, rebuild and maintain. Jets, on the other hand, are much more complicated and expensive to rebuild and maintain, not to mention a rare supersonic one, where it must be impossible to find spare parts too.

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First, it's Concorde.

Second, some truth there but not completely. There are at elast enough spares to re-build G-BBDG in Brooklands. And a whole host of support staff from BA that are willing to undertake the task.

I forget the specific $$ amount but It would cost well over $1 million to keep one Concorde flying for airshows and things of the sort.

But there is a Vulcan flying around just as well. Same basic powerplants at Concorde.