Re: [OM] OT photo ops

[Wayne Harridge]

> John Hudson <13874@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Here is a clip from the 15 October online edition of The Daily
> Telegraph [London, England] 
> 
> Last of the Concordes to go to foreign museums
> By Paul Marston and Sean O'Neill
> (Filed: 15/10/2003) 
> 
> 
> "Three of the five Concordes still flying are to be given permanent
> retirement homes overseas under plans drawn up by British Airways.
> 
> "Two of the aircraft will be based in the United States, at the
> Intrepid Air and Space Museum in New York and the Seattle Museum of
> Flight.
> 
> "Another will go to Barbados. It does not have an aviation museum,
> but a local businessman plans to build one at the island's airport."

I believe (saw it on a piece of a German newspaper which was wrapped around 
an ebay purchase of OM gear - mandatory OM content !) that one concord has 
already gone to an aviation museum somewhere in Germany.


Wayne Harridge

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~w_harridge

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