Originally Posted by
Globaliser
If it is a machine of beauty, if it is a vehicle that carried one's dreams and prompts one's memories, or if it is an evocation of fond nostalgia - then yes, it is sad.
It is funny how we get attached to things, and yes it
is sad when something as magnificent as a machine, which represents many hours of work ends up as scrap. It is illogical as obsolesence has always been part of the air and car industry. I felt sad when the DC-10s finally went as they were lovely aircraft which survived in spite of two horrendous accidents that meant the grounding of all DC10s at one point in 1979. It nearly broke BCAL. Still when I see the antiquated old hulks still plying around the USA (MD80s are still flying for AA - who flies them still in Europe? Volotea have the Boeing 717 I know).Still onward and upwards!