Cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 45 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (4 months 3 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 4440 times:
While I don't have any photos of it, the British Airways film "27 years of supersonic flight" (the goodbye video) has film footage of the 4 plane formation.
It also has Mike Bannister flying G-BOAD in formation with RAFAT.
ConcordeBoy From United States, joined Feb 2001, 18128 posts, RR: 78 Reply 12, posted (4 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 3257 times:
Quoting Jet13 (Reply 11): Why did the Concorde stop flying?
Though, the most simple of searches could answer this question a thousand times over.
Basically, the costs of the re-initiated services were beginning to eclipse the benefits derived, particularly for the French. When they'd decided they had enough, the British had to later end service as well, as there was no way they could justify the expense of the operational and maintenance programs on their own.
Sad, but eventually inevitable. Just wish for one more time we could recapture the mass sentiment felt when a fully-modified Concorde returned to the skies once again.
Faire du ciel le plus bel endroit de la terre c'est impossible sans Concorde!
GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 10037 posts, RR: 71 Reply 18, posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 1620 times:
Is it really getting on for 5 years since it ended?
For me, I've missed Concorde less since we got into and through the 2005-2007 period, where even without the series of events in 2000-2003, we'd have very likely stopped by then anyway.
There was never a set stop date, but had you asked me 10 years ago in Concorde would be still flying in 2008, the answer would have been 'probably not'.
Since to do so, we'd have been doing some very expensive work, not only in structures but keeping systems viable and current, often by replacing them with something made especially-all this across such a tiny fleet was VERY expensive.
Eventually, these costs would exceed revenue, of all the events that were negative, the 'Bin Laden' slump after 2001 was the one that brought this forward a few years.
Legoguy From Ireland, joined Jun 2006, 3045 posts, RR: 29 Reply 20, posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 1531 times:
I found this photo on Flickr, with the person claiming that it's borrowed form airliners.net. I'm not sure if Air France did fly a formation of four Concorde's, so it could be a fake.
Also interesting is that the 4 formations of Concorde's in BA's original livery was updated with the new liveries. Same photos but with new liveries painted on top (Photoshop on behalf of BA?)
Lastly, another cool photograph of six Concorde's together. There is a photo floating around of all 7 BA Concorde's at Heathrow in a 'Concorde' formation on the ground, but I can't find it.
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