Filton based Concorde being removed from public display

mickdw

Something seems odd with this. Airbus are moving this concorde, the most suitable candidate for any future return to flight from public display & are taking it to a hanger for Maintenance. Now nobody seems to be talking about the nature of this maintenance but its a very unexpected development as the people running the tours in filton were working towards a permanent display buiding for the aircraft. They are now suddenly been told there will be no display jet for the foreseeable future.
The way I see this;
BA have either decided to preserve the best available british concorde in a bid to not be outdone by Air france in their relight attempt
or
they are going to completely decommission this aircraft to remove any possibility of future use in any capacity.
or
they are going to work with the french effort and support the relight of one aircraft with Airbus also on board.

Certainly this is a strange development & one to watch with interest.

Steyr

Perhaps this is the Concorde they want to exhibit beside the London Eye? I remember seeing a promotion about it, she was to be laid onto a bit of re-claimed land beside the eye and to have been a walk on exhibit.

Foggy43

Some news here on Concorde http://www.concordesst.com/latestnews.html

mickdw

Having read abit more on this development, it appears that airbus (presumably with BA approval) are hoping to hide it away in a hanger for supposed maintenance & eventually just scrap it when things die down.
If this is the case, IMO that is bordering on criminal damage & if British airways are happy about this, they are foolish as this will realistically leave just the 1 french concorde with any possibility of getting to a taxi condition . It is quite likely to happen too. After the french were mainly responsible for the grounding originally, how silly will BA look if they now go along with the french in destroying the one remaining good british concorde, all the while pressure growing in france to get their one to taxi again & if political pressure got behind this french bid, airbus & airfrance would be on board too. If that was the case, flight is possible.

lord lucan

LOL @ the rumours that they're going to make the one in Filton airworthy for a fly-past at the opening of the 2012 Olympics in London. Never going to happen imo.

Delancey

Given that Concorde has been out of servive a relatively short time ( certainly compared to the Vulcan bomber ) would it really be such a huge job to get it airworthy again ?

pclancy

Someone with enough money to throw at one will eventually put one back in the air...it always happens. Be it a charity or ngo etc. Or very rich person