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[Nickbat]

I was out shopping with SWMBO today at The Galleria shopping centre (A1 at Hatfield, Herts) and wandered into a shop called The Works, just to browse. What caught my eye was a Concorde Book & DVD Gift Pack, containing a 96-page colour pocket book about the great plane plus a 50-minute DVD tracing the story from development right through to decomissioning. RRP £14.99. On sale for £2.99

Bought! 

P.S. They also had a gift pack, similarly priced, about buses and trams. Didn't buy it, but I'm sure there are a few on here that would want to! 

[Webby the Bear]

funny you mention concorde..... i drove past one in france last week.

why did they ever decommmission it???

[Nickbat]

funny you mention concorde..... i drove past one in france last week.

why did they ever decommmission it???

It was deemed too expensive to keep flying without the modifications and I have read that BA did not want anyone else to fly it. Others will confirm, no doubt. 

[pauls]

I heard/read richard branson tried to buy but BA said no.

[Vamps]

I was out shopping with SWMBO today at The Galleria shopping centre (A1 at Hatfield, Herts) and wandered into a shop called The Works, just to browse. What caught my eye was a Concorde Book & DVD Gift Pack, containing a 96-page colour pocket book about the great plane plus a 50-minute DVD tracing the story from development right through to decomissioning. RRP £14.99. On sale for £2.99

Bought! 

P.S. They also had a gift pack, similarly priced, about buses and trams. Didn't buy it, but I'm sure there are a few on here that would want to! 

I used to go there regularly, just lived up the road... Do you remember when they had the 'Plastic' :question :question Ice skating rink in the middle, think it has gone now?

[Jusme]

Remember my flight on it, a truly memorable occasion. Still have a few momentoes. A truly fantastic plane... 

[Big_Al]

I was out shopping with SWMBO today at The Galleria shopping centre (A1 at Hatfield, Herts) and wandered into a shop called The Works, just to browse. What caught my eye was a Concorde Book & DVD Gift Pack, containing a 96-page colour pocket book about the great plane plus a 50-minute DVD tracing the story from development right through to decomissioning. RRP £14.99. On sale for £2.99

Bought! 

P.S. They also had a gift pack, similarly priced, about buses and trams. Didn't buy it, but I'm sure there are a few on here that would want to! 

Got one of those shops here at "Saffend"  good selection of bargain books & games,  I got a very large glossy colour Beatles book there for a fiver just before christmas

[Jimbob]

yup, i have to wander round if I pass any of these bargain bookshops, never know what they have of interest 

[Banjax]

i bought Glen Michaels autobiography in a Works for about £1.50 - anyone around my age in the STV region knows exactly who Glen Michael is - legendary purveyor of cartoons and jokes of a sunday in his "Cavalcade" with paladin the lamp and rusty the dog 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

funny you mention concorde..... i drove past one in france last week.

why did they ever decommmission it???

It was deemed too expensive to keep flying without the modifications and I have read that BA did not want anyone else to fly it. Others will confirm, no doubt. 

Indeed, as it lacked passenger payload capacity v. costs, so each passenger had to pay a considerable premium for flying on Concorde. 

That actually produced a small profit on Concorde flights for BA when full.  However along came the Paris crash, then worse still 9/11!  It decimated passenger numbers on Concorde in particular, and spelt the end to a great aircraft that could never catter for the mass passenger markets due to the running costs.

The passenger loadings needed to be double the number from the start, with of course full access to all major USA airports which it never secured.  The "son of Concorde" as envisaged by the great man himself, Sir Barnes Wallace, would have been double the size and no doubt would have overcome the issues of noise produced by those wonderful Olympus engines! 

But that is one of those points in history of "if, maybe, should of, if only"!

One day supersonic passenger transport will return

[Elite Pete]

I've just come back from the newsagents and tucked inside my Daily Mail was a copy of Razzle, don't know how it got there but what a bargain

[Jimbob]

I've just come back from the newsagents and tucked inside my Daily Mail was a copy of Razzle, don't know how it got there but what a bargain

ahh the old teenager trick 

[Elite Pete]

I've just come back from the newsagents and tucked inside my Daily Mail was a copy of Razzle, don't know how it got there but what a bargain

ahh the old teenager trick 

But I am still a teenager

[tunnie]

funny you mention concorde..... i drove past one in france last week.

why did they ever decommmission it???

It was deemed too expensive to keep flying without the modifications and I have read that BA did not want anyone else to fly it. Others will confirm, no doubt. 

Indeed, as it lacked passenger payload capacity v. costs, so each passenger had to pay a considerable pemium for flying on Concorde. 

That actually produced a small profit on Concorde flights for BA when full.  However along came the Paris crash, then worse still 9/11!  It decimated passenger numbers on Concorde in particular, and spelt the end to a great aircraft that could never catter for the mass passenger markets due to the running costs.

The passenger loadings needed to be double the number from the start, with of course full access to all major USA airports which it never secured.  The "son of Concorde" as envisaged by the great man himself, Sir Barnes Wallace, would have been double the size and no doubt would have overcome the issues of noise produced by those wonderful Olympus engines! 

But that is one of those points in history of "if, maybe, should of, if only"!

One day supersonic passenger transport will return

Sadly I can't see it happening for decades if at-all, Concord only made money due to Business customers.

That need is no longer there, you no longer need to be at meetings in New York in the morning, London by the afternoon. (maybe in some cases but no mainstream 80's style)

Video Conferencing and the internet has changed all that.

Now its all about shifting as many people as possible in a plane (A380) using as little fuel as possible (Boeing Dreamliner) - With low maintenance costs

Supersonic, will use too much fuel and cost too much to maintain and   tickets will be expensive 

Got more chance of Virgin Galactic becoming mainstream, go via Space to NYC 

[Banjax]

I've just come back from the newsagents and tucked inside my Daily Mail was a copy of Razzle, don't know how it got there but what a bargain

i'd have tucked the Daily Mail inside Razzle