Branson's £1m for Concorde to fly again

[Nick]

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?

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.

[mirrodie]

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?

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.

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.