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  • Concorde to fly again ?
  • allthepies
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    buzz-lightyear
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    At the olympics they hope

    IanMunro
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    That's going to beat the normal flaming torch they have going into the stadium 🙂

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    druidh
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    Oooh – you're a very naughty man!

    Netdonkey
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    Wicked… Great piece of engineering spoilt by a french runway check…

    allthepies
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    A flyby at the Olympics opening would be superb.

    esselgruntfuttock
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    Bring it on!! It should happen. Over London on reheat, whoaaaa!

    Rockhopper
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    Why would they want an Air France Concorde flying at the London Olympics?

    konabunny
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    bah humbug

    Jimbo
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    It won't happen. The "Save Concorde Group" are a bunch of dreamers, the 593 lot the French equivalent.
    There are no parts, there's no certification, no support (Airbus say "Non!"). The CAA won't allow it. No-one will pay for it.
    Look how hard the Vulcan guys had to work to get their comparatively simple, subsonic bomber to be allowed to fly under massively tight regs (VFR, etc). And that's an ex-military a/c that
    never needed original approval/certification. Concorde would be 10000x more complex, and impossible to certify. The CAA wouldn't want a supersonic a/c in the hands of "enthusiasts".
    Furthermore, aside from one tucked away in a museum, all
    the a/c have had their hydraulic systems drained and disabled. With 7 years of no maintneance,
    they're dead aircraft.

    ScottChegg
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    Clicky

    A none BBC report insists that the aim is taxi-ing only, not flight.

    A more realistic goal, but doesn't make such great headlines.

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