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2023-11-27 Science & Technology

Will you join the bid to transform a mothballed Concorde into a spectacular museum on the Thames?

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [23 views ] Top

#1 No, I won’t.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-11-27 11:41|| 2023-11-27 11:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Nope. I don't think the modern world deserves, or could even understand, Concorde.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-11-27 13:41|| 2023-11-27 13:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Why does every failed idea need a museum?

Posted by ed in texas 2023-11-27 13:49|| 2023-11-27 13:49|| Front Page Top

#4 ...There are at least five or six Concordes preserved in museums that I can think of right off the bat (and at least three here in the states), but I think only two in the UK, one of which is the bird in question.

Putting it up somewhere that more people can enjoy it isn't a bad idea, and I hope they can figure out a way to pull it off. There's going to be two issues: first, corrosion control, and second, what's plan B if it doesn't work? Will the plane simply be towed off and scrapped?

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-11-27 14:11|| 2023-11-27 14:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Museums and libraries are now propaganda factories that would make Goebbels blush. Time to withdraw all taxpayer money from all of them. If they can't subsist on admission revenue and private donations, they should auction off their "holdings" and close.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-27 14:13|| 2023-11-27 14:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Vulcan, please. Seriously, always thought 504, Lancaster, and Vulcan made a pretty nifty trio. How about rides up and down the Thames in replica 504s? I'd pay a silly amount of money for that. Yeah... I'll hold my breath.

Posted by Javique Elmaque4780 2023-11-27 18:19|| 2023-11-27 18:19|| Front Page Top

#7 I would rather see a WW2 Lancaster and Mosquito returned to mint condition fly overhead. The SST Concorde was a Rich Man's Toy™...

Posted by magpie 2023-11-27 18:20|| 2023-11-27 18:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Why does every failed idea need a museum?

Is there a Communism Museum?
Could be kinda cool with a virtual reality cemetery where you can walk around 100,000,000 graves.

Posted by SteveS 2023-11-27 18:35|| 2023-11-27 18:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Lotta walking. Maybe run a little tramway through it?

Posted by Javique Elmaque4780 2023-11-27 20:14|| 2023-11-27 20:14|| Front Page Top

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