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Will you join the bid to transform a mothballed Concorde into a spectacular museum on the Thames?
2023-11-27
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  Lotta walking. Maybe run a little tramway through it?
Posted by: Javique Elmaque4780   2023-11-27 20:14  

#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  

#7  I would rather see a WW2 Lancaster and Mosquito returned to mint condition fly overhead. The SST Concorde was a Rich Man's Toyâ„¢...
Posted by: magpie   2023-11-27 18:20  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#3  Why does every failed idea need a museum?
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-11-27 13:49  

#2  Nope. I don't think the modern world deserves, or could even understand, Concorde.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-11-27 13:41  

#1  No, I won’t.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-11-27 11:41  

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