Simviation Forum - Thirty three years ago...

Sep 26^th, 2006 at 5:49am

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Well thirty three years ago Concorde did its first long-haul flight from Paris to New York and slashed the Atlantic crossing time by 50%. I still miss her Cry

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Reply #1 - Sep 26^th, 2006 at 5:54am

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Concordes were rather beautiful! I miss them as well, they should make a newer, more fuel efficient one (is that possible going that fast) Cheers, Gunny

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Reply #2 - Sep 26^th, 2006 at 5:57am

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...you've just reminded me...

Thirty years ago I was 42.

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Reply #3 - Sep 26^th, 2006 at 6:02am

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Concords were rather beautiful! I miss them as well, they should make a newer, more fuel efficient one (is that possible going that fast) Cheers, Gunny

Concorde (with an E) was always referred to in the singular. I think this is unique for an aircraft of any type. There have been several proposals for a replacement or improved SST but so far these have proved either too expensive or impractical. I think Concorde will remain unique.

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Reply #4 - Sep 26^th, 2006 at 6:07am

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Well too bad I guess, at least we can still see them in Flight sim.... Cheers, Gunny

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Reply #5 - Sep 27^th, 2006 at 1:38am

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...you've just reminded me... Thirty years ago I was 42.

Goodness... that's almost half of your life ago.

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Concorde was always referred to in the singular.

Seems we went through that before... maybe you should make it a sticky

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Reply #6 - Sep 27^th, 2006 at 4:19am

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Goodness... that's almost half of your life ago.

Seems we went through that before... maybe you should make it a sticky

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LOL...!

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Reply #7 - Sep 27^th, 2006 at 1:04pm

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http://www.save-concorde.co.uk/

Please sign now.

Such a shame she still isnt flying.

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Reply #8 - Sep 28^th, 2006 at 12:57am

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Well thirty three years ago Concorde did its first long-haul flight from Paris to New York and slashed the Atlantic crossing time by 50%. I still miss her Cry

Technically, wouldn't the Dakar-Rio leg of the Paris to Rio de Janeiro original routing be the Concorde's first transatlantic crossing?

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Reply #9 - Nov 11^th, 2006 at 9:44am

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Yes I saw her twice at Heathrow while landing and taking off will not be able to get off my mind till i am on planet earth. Grin

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Reply #10 - Jan 4^th, 2007 at 9:48am

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concord's are just awesome Cheesy

if we want to make a replacement i have an idea

we take pauls cessna 152, strap a ej2000 engine to it and watch it cross the atlantic Cheesy

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Reply #11 - Jan 4^th, 2007 at 2:02pm

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Since I could have never afforded a Concorde flight, I don't care at all if she's flying or not.
Honestly, there are a lot better and efficient aircraft out there.

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Reply #12 - Jan 4^th, 2007 at 7:04pm

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Since I could have never afforded a Concorde flight, I don't care at all if she's flying or not.
Honestly, there are a lot better and efficient aircraft out there.

i think its a british thing to love the concorde

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Reply #13 - Jan 4^th, 2007 at 10:11pm

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If anyone has a few minutes, you can log onto Deltava.org and sign up. Then go into the fleet library and there pilots can download a pretty sweet concorde. It comes in a few Air France Textures. Also they have a 757-200 Delta Song which is rare on SimV.

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Reply #14 - Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:01pm

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Since I could have never afforded a Concorde flight, I don't care at all if she's flying or not.
Honestly, there are a lot better and efficient aircraft out there.

i think its a british thing to love the concorde

I've noticed. Wink

A few years ago, Boeing mused with an idea of designing an air transport that used hyper cruise engines. It didn't get very far. Maybe it has something to do with people STILL not wanting to hear sonic booms on a regular basis.

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Reply #15 - Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:08pm

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dcunning30 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:01pm:

A few years ago, Boeing mused with an idea of designing an air transport that used hyper cruise engines. It didn't get very far. Maybe it has something to do with people STILL not wanting to hear sonic booms on a regular basis.

More likely it was judged to be far too expensive. Concorde was used mainly for transatlantic travel so sonic booms over the ocean were never a problem. I think that started out as propaganda used against it by its opponents & is obviously still believed today.

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Reply #16 - Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:12pm

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Well, if Concorde was intended to be used for transatlantic flight and ONLY translatlantic flight, what killed it then?

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dcunning30 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:12pm:

Well, if Concorde was intended to be used for transatlantic flight and ONLY translatlantic flight, what killed it then?

Airbus stopped making spare parts for it.

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Woodlouse2002 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:34pm:

dcunning30 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:12pm:

Well, if Concorde was intended to be used for transatlantic flight and ONLY translatlantic flight, what killed it then?

Airbus stopped making spare parts for it.

The crash in france didn't help either. Sad

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Reply #19 - Jan 5^th, 2007 at 3:31pm

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Woodlouse2002 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:34pm:

dcunning30 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:12pm:

Well, if Concorde was intended to be used for transatlantic flight and ONLY translatlantic flight, what killed it then?

Airbus stopped making spare parts for it.

LOL! We went through that before. Let's move that horse in front of the cart where it belongs! Grin

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Reply #20 - Jan 5^th, 2007 at 3:44pm

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dcunning30 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 3:31pm:

Woodlouse2002 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:34pm:

dcunning30 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:12pm:

Well, if Concorde was intended to be used for transatlantic flight and ONLY translatlantic flight, what killed it then?

Airbus stopped making spare parts for it.

LOL! We went through that before. Let's move that horse in front of the cart where it belongs! Grin

Well you did ask. Grin

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Reply #21 - Jan 5^th, 2007 at 5:52pm

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Woodlouse2002 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 3:44pm:

dcunning30 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 3:31pm:

Woodlouse2002 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:34pm:

dcunning30 wrote on Jan 5^th, 2007 at 2:12pm:

Well, if Concorde was intended to be used for transatlantic flight and ONLY translatlantic flight, what killed it then?

Airbus stopped making spare parts for it.

LOL! We went through that before. Let's move that horse in front of the cart where it belongs! Grin

Well you did ask. Grin

Touché!

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Reply #22 - Jan 6^th, 2007 at 8:26am

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Imagine though if the Tu-144, the Concorde and the Boeing 2707 were all still flying at the same time. It would almost feel like the Jetsons.

That also couls mean that there could be a crash every two months.

I would like to see the concorde fly again too, but it was just too expensive to orperate so they had to shut it down. When it comes to translantic flying, only very whealthy people would fly the concorde, most people use either the A-340, 767-300ER,400ER or any type of 747.

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