A disgrace!

[chris]

What kind of sick people do this: :mad: :flame: :irate:

http://www.af001.com/galerie/category.php?cat=2&start=0

Hopefully the people who did it will be severely punished.

[Commander]

That's heinous, I can't believe the nerve of some jerks! :mad:

[Venom800tt]

OMG :eek:
Poor Concorde =((
First being retired too early, then being vandalized like some old wall or something. :mad:

[VQ]

that is heinius! People spray painted a brand new Loco at my dads work and they were caught while doing it! cost them 10 grand to repray it!

[chris]

OMG :eek:
Poor Concorde =((
First being retired too early, then being vandalized like some old wall or something. :mad:

We should keep them locked away in hangers instead of putting such expensive and rare planes out in the weather.

Then when economic conditions get better, and they can be brought back into service. There was nothing wrong with them. They were all in very good condition, and the post Paris crash updates made a safe plane even safer.

[VQ]

We should keep them locked away in hangers instead of putting such expensive and rare planes out in the weather.

Then when economic conditions get better, and they can be brought back into service. There was nothing wrong with them. They were all in very good condition, and the post Paris crash updates made a safe plane even safer.

Exactly what I was thinking looking at the pics.

[blackice111288]

thats stupid, if you are gonna take the risk of tagging at least do a good job, now they have an expensive plane that could have been used at a later time ruined with crappy graffiti because they have to go back and repaint it, which is tedious work on a car, im sure its even more painstaking on an airplane.
i could have got some people from around here to tag it better than they did.

[Sepecat]

We should keep them locked away in hangers instead of putting such expensive and rare planes out in the weather.




I guess you haven’t been to Manchester then… ;) Its also out in the open in NYC as well…

[chris]

Yeah, they stuck it on top of a bloody aircraft carrier.. Stupid fools.. :rolleyes:

All of those sea-breezes can not be good for it.

A waste considering there is nothing wrong with these planes.

They got new tyres, and they got reinforcements for the fuel tanks. It is a safe plane. You'd have more chance getting killed by walking out your front door than on a Concorde.

And the airframes on them are all perfect, because of the benefits of such high speed flight.

[Commander]

Has anyone ever seen the movie "Colors" with Robert Duvall and Sean Penn? I like what Sean Penn does to the kid he catches vandalizing the wall... he spraypaints the kids face. ^_^

[chris]

On the vandalised plane, it says "we can fly".. Not if I caught them. )=)

Hopefully Sierra Alpha will quickly be repaired and moved somewhere more suitable, like a hanger.

Or send her to Toulouse, where she can exist alongside fox-charlie (F-BVFC).

[Sepecat]

Chris, I think there already is one at Toulouse...

[Sepecat]

A waste considering there is nothing wrong with these planes.

They got new tyres, and they got reinforcements for the fuel tanks. It is a safe plane. You'd have more chance getting killed by walking out your front door than on a Concorde.

And the airframes on them are all perfect, because of the benefits of such high speed flight.

Its too damn expensive to keep it running… That’s why it was retired… And also if another crash somehow happens, then it will be the end… Might as well go out will you are flying high.. ;)

[chris]

Chris, I think there already is one at Toulouse...

There are two, a prototype which has been there for ages, and F-BVFC who looks like she is being preserved in her original form.

Its too damn expensive to keep it running… That’s why it was retired… And also if another crash somehow happens, then it will be the end… Might as well go out will you are flying high.. ;)

BA had a huge avionics upgrade planned for Concorde and envisaged giving it the typical glass cockpit like the majority of airliners these days.

The problem was that AF pulled out, and Airbus wouldn't support them flying with just one airline.

[KyzrSoze]

It's tuff when something you have a passion for is viewed by the owner as purely a business asset. It takes massive amounts of cash necessary to keep such a machine in top shape, and then even more $$ for proper storage. Hangars by nature require large, prime, and expensive sections of real estate - not suitable for an object that no longer earns its keep. :(

Sad to see such an icon in such non glorious situation. Machines like that go downhil quickly when they are ignored. Though planes are not a passion of mine, I sympathize with your frustration.

[VQ]

What about muesuems? They'd have to pay to get them but I've seen them restore some awsome planes and come back and they use them occasionally, this is so much biggethen what most Aero muesums take but.

[chris]

Bigger and a lot more complex as well. Fly by wire controls for starters, and the engines are controlled via computers as well (FADEC). Oh yes, these old planes have plenty of tricks up their sleeves. :)

Although nearly all the major mechanical systems are still in these things, I believe it is mostly instruments removed. Some of them, you'd put the instruments back in them and you could fly them no problem.

[VQ]

Our Golf has fly by wire for the acelerator to fuel pump connection.....

But why did they remove the instruments?

[chris]

Presumably so very bad people like Boeing and the other American institutions don't get ideas of having the planes reposessed and flying them to get data from them.

I want them to fly yes, but not with the opposition doing the flying though. ;)

Boeing or NASA flying a Concorde just isn't right.

[VQ]

ah, but why can't they just fabricate their own gauges themselves?