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£1,000,000 donated to help permanent museum for Concorde.
Rolls Royce has donated £1 million (US$1,510,000) to help fund the construction of a permanent museum for Concorde G-BOAF, the last Concorde to fly. G-BOAF has been on the apron of Bristol's Filton airfield - now closed to air traffic. The 'Bristol Aero Collection Trust' is currently raising the £13 million needed to construct the museum. As of 1st May 2013. The Bristol Aero Collection Trust has received around £4 million in pledges. (www.bbc.co.uk) 기타...
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...I wish New York would do the same...for several aircraft/spacecraft.
New York isn't the city to do something like that. Those planes would get graffiti and hobo's would sleep in the luggage compartments. I kid though. Spent a month in NYC and New Yorkers are some of the coolest people I've ever met. Why they don't have an aviation museum is beyond me.
New York is not the right city also because the city was so vigorously against allowing supersonic transport (the SST) into New York City. There was a strong element of opposition simply on the grounds of 'not-invented-here', given that the USA did not have such an aircraft, but the ideal early routes for Concorde (London-New York, Paris-New York) were not available.
Would it be nice to know if either Air France or British Airways had quietly kept one aircraft intact ready for possible future flying! If old war planes can be kept airworthy i.e Vulcan, why not the great icons of the passenger age?
Can be seen on Google Earth at Filton Bristol UK beside main runway and Brabazon hanger were it was created.
This is sad .....
http://heritageconcorde.com/technical-2/the-concorde-fleet/concorde-g-boab/g-boab-condition-today-2
http://heritageconcorde.com/technical-2/the-concorde-fleet/concorde-g-boab/g-boab-condition-today-2
