Concorde: All Party Support...2012

[ashtonvillageuk]

A new bid to save Concorde for the nation and see it flying again has been
launched by an all-party group in London spearheaded by Montgomeryshire MP
Lembit Opik.

The Save Concorde Group in Westminster believes the supersonic aircraft
could be given a new lease of life at air shows. They also want to use the
aviation icon in a flypast at the 2012 Olympics.

They are holding a series of meetings with British Airways at Heathrow and
Airbus at Hawarden in North Wales this month in a bid to find out exactly
how much it would cost to restore Concorde and get it airborne again.

Mr Opik said today: "I believe Concorde is part of our national heritage
and symbolic of what Britons - and indeed the French - can do technically
when they really put their heads together."

For further information, please join http://www.save-concorde.org.uk
your support for this GREAT British aviation icon will be most
appreciated.


Best regards,



Steve
www.save-concorde.org.uk

[ashtonvillageuk]

Thank you pointing out the problem, now rectified, please click on
http://www.save-concorde.co.uk

Many thanks.....S

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This was attempted before the planes were actually grounded. The costs
are extraordinarily high, and only one outfit in Europe can handle such
a task and won't.

Aside from the fact that it's supersonic, nothing else about the plane
wows me. It was a cramped, loud, uncomfortable ride.

We should be looking ahead to new technologies to enable supersonic
travel. The Concorde will never fly again.