posted 06-26-2003 07:05 PM               

MANHATTAN: A CONCORDE MAY LAND ON INTREPID

British Airways and the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum are negotiating to place a retired Concorde on the deck of the aircraft carrier turned museum. John Lampl, a British Airways spokesman, said, "It would be our desire to have an airplane at the two ends of the main route, and certainly the USS Intrepid would be a great place." Air France has taken the plane out of service, and British Airways plans to do so in October. A Concorde could be floated by barge from Kennedy International Airport to the Hudson River, and hoisted by crane onto the Intrepid at Pier 86, near 46th Street and 12th Avenue. But a long list of museums want Concordes, and British Airways has only seven. The Museum of Flight in Seattle, for example, wants one and so does the Smithsonian's new annex at Dulles Airport near Washington.

...which means it will float right pass my house if they do that :-)

So many museums are bidding for the 12 Concordes. the NASM has its already, and of course Europe will want the majority. What I don't get is why the Museum of Flight- the Boeing Museum- wants one. They were the competition when it was built!

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-Ben

posted 06-27-2003 11:03 AM               

Hmmmm... what's the disposition of the Tu-144?

posted 06-27-2003 01:47 PM               

The Mueseum of Flight is just that - flight. Not a museum of Boeing, it's just located at Boeing Field. I still wish the Liberty Bell 7 tour would stop there.

I read that they should have a He-111 there this weekend with the B-17. I might have to go check that out!

Tom

posted 06-29-2003 12:39 AM               

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Originally posted by Hart Sastrowardoyo:
Well, if the Boeing 2707 part mockup still exists (the half fuselage), the Museum of Flight could always display that next to a Concorde....

Hart

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I think I saw that a few years ago at a junk yard near the south enterance of the Kennedy Space Center. It was on display in Orlando at one time. Didn't get to see it then though. But I was driving past, what I think was a space junk yard, there were all kinds of rockets, and such other parts all over the place. Well, I spotted something that made me do a U turn.
Strange looking air craft parts. After looking at what turned out to be the tail section, part of the wing, and some body parts I figured it had to be the mock up of the SST that was in Orlando. I think this is what you were writing about. I sure hated to see it wind up in a scrap yard. The last time I went by, the whole place was cleaned out. It went from total space race clutter to vacant lot. I have no idea where it all went too. Anybody else see this stuff, and know what it was, and were it all went too?

Ed

posted 06-29-2003 01:04 AM               

Boeing 2707
http://airlines.afriqonline.com/images/sst8.jpg

Too bad it never made it!

When I visited the Museum of Flight, they had some sort of Boeing SST..what was that? not the 2707?

posted 06-29-2003 06:53 AM               

I seem to remember the space junk yard near KSC was cleared out about a year or two ago. I think everything was auctioned off.

posted 06-30-2003 01:22 PM               

This is actually the SECOND Boeing SST mockup. The first was the "yellow" configuration which had a double articulated nose and a swing wing. That mockup was scrapped when the program moved to the "final" red-white-blue delta wing design. This second mockup - the prototype 2707-300 configuration - was the "final" design. Boeing was planning to build two flying prototypes of this configuration but the program was cancelled before they were built.

I am fortunate to have the Chief Engineer's 2707-300 desk model on display in my home for a while. Bill is a friend of mine and still consults on our new airplane team here at Boeing - at 84 years young!
http://www.hiller.org/exhibits/online-exhibits/sst/sst.html

posted 07-02-2003 06:49 AM               

Air France's Concorde, F-BVFB, lands at Baden-Baden Airport near Karlsruhe, southern Germany, Tuesday, June 24, 2003, after leaving Paris' Charles de Galle Airport. The Concorde completed its farewell flight Tuesday, ahead of a journey no supersonic jet has ever taken before- down the Rhine River to a German museum, to which it was donated for a symbolic 1 euro.