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Manchester May Day
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Something else you can see at Manchester Airport. "Our" beautiful Concorde, G-BOAC, the one in which wifey and I flew New York to London in 1998. Sad to see it reduced to a static display for people to gawk at. Sic transit gloria (So passes away the glory).
The British had just completed a multi-multi-million pound upgrade of the 1960s-era electronics and instruments to bring them into the 21st century, and other modifications and improvements, and had planned to fly them for another 20 years. The French decided that they didn't want to, and as it was a joint Anglo-French enterprise, with repair facilities and spare part manufacture in France as well as England, that was the death knell of all of the planes. Bloody Frogs.
The British had just completed a multi-multi-million pound upgrade of the 1960s-era electronics and instruments to bring them into the 21st century, and other modifications and improvements, and had planned to fly them for another 20 years. The French decided that they didn't want to, and as it was a joint Anglo-French enterprise, with repair facilities and spare part manufacture in France as well as England, that was the death knell of all of the planes. Bloody Frogs.