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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by DrillerNic: I'd guess teh main error is forgetting that there was a little bit of French involvement!</font> |
Ah, but it was the the inaugural passenger flight FROM Bahrain, not the inaugural passenger flight.
This would also explain the 21st/22nd January discrepancy. Does this show the declining standards of our education system, given it was pointed out by no other than fgb himself???? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif Edited to add an apology to Alpha Golf, as I see you made exactly the same point I did - oops! [This message has been edited by Swiss Tony (edited 10-24-2003).] |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Swiss Tony: Ah, but it was the the inaugural passenger flight FROM Bahrain, not the inaugural passenger flight. This would also explain the 21st/22nd January discrepancy. Does this show the declining standards of our education system, given it was pointed out by no other than fgb himself???? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif</font> http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif |
CNN just posted the following, I believe. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/concorde/index.html They're also airing a special on the network (a friend of mine worked on it- lucky her!), but I can't find the listing. |
The last of the three concordes is flying over South London right now. Genuinely brings a tear to the eye... goodbye ya beauties.
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Just saw them fly over - beautiful, as ever...
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All down now.
Very sad http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif |
Concorde was the one plane which could still make Londoners stop and stare at the sky; whenever I saw her fly overhead it lifted my day; in my street in North London a few minutes ago there were ten of us watching two of the three final Concordes go overhead. A beautiful sight and so sad to think that there will never be another chance sighting.
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Just saw the landing. CNN cut away on final, but Fox showed at least the first. Lovely shot with two in the air...
Can anyone confirm that my baby flew 002? What a sad day... |
It really is all over now.
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Not so much sad as a national disgrace. An absolutely unique, fully functional and recently fully overhauled gift from the future cut down in its prime. Britain and BA has benefited enormously from Concorde's staggering achievement, prestige and sheer beauty and its worth cannot be measured in mere direct revenue.
BA and the government are being not so much shortsighted as committing an act of treason in my view. And the final galling propsect is the likelihood that one of these marvels - with another 20 years flying left in it - is going to end up rusting on the deck of USS Intrepid, probably free-of-charge, in the country most responsible for the early wrecking of its commercial viability. A sad day indeed. |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Alpha Golf: Can anyone confirm that my baby flew 002?</font> And I think she was. When they lined up on the taxiway immediately afterwards for the flag waving, the most enormous Union flag was billowing from Golf's captain's window. That could only have been our great leader Bannister himself. [This message has been edited by Globaliser (edited 10-24-2003).] |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by KenF: [b]It's a sad day for me, a sad day for all flyers, and a pretty bad day for humanity as a whole. As a race, our destiny lies in the stars, but this week, we took a step backwards.....</font> |
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