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◊ 2008-04-26 01:50 |
Berliet/Renault VXB-170 www.armyrecognition.com -- Last edit: 2008-04-26 01:52:39 |
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◊ 2008-04-26 15:15 |
A little off-topic, that Corcorde in the main picture, acording to IMDb, it´s the same which burst into flames and crashed into a hotel in 2000, killing 113. |
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◊ 2008-04-27 05:56 |
Only one to crash. But I still don't get why the stopped flying them after that. |
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◊ 2008-04-27 22:02 |
Costs were increasing, and number of passengers decreasing, especially after the crash (though that we can wonder why, as you said it was the only accident, unlike many other planes) |
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◊ 2008-04-28 11:20 |
British Airways only stopped flying the Concorde more than three years after the incident. Cost were increasing, passenger numbers generally falling after the blasting of the WTC, and the environmental aspects move more into the focus which made the flying swan look less prestigious. It was never a commercial success on its own, but rather a testbed for civilian aeronautic development shared between two nations. It certainly helped make Airbus a success story. Anyhow the Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde flew commercially more than 27 years, a very long time for the first owner. Selling them on to second grade companies was no option, therefore the retirement followed. |
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◊ 2008-04-28 11:32 |
Although, in terms of cycles, they still had many years' use left in the airframes. Richard Branson knew this, and tried to buy the BA stock for Virgin Atlantic, suggesting that the planes actually belonged to the UK public, being funded originally by taxpayers when BA was nationalised. BA somehow managed to get out of it. Shame. Still a fantastic machine. |
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◊ 2012-07-28 21:42 |
F-BTSC, 1975 Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde 100 of Air France. |
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