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Lets just hope the Boeing Museum of FLight give it a good home and keep it airworthy.....
Its the best hope any of us have for seeing one preserved correctly. I do think its very funny that BA, also known as Boeing Always in view of its continued purchasing of Boeing products inspite increasing pressue to buy Airbus, is giving Boeing the 'prize' product of aviation. I hope it will allow the next generation of of SSTs to be born little sooner. Maybe it should be displayed next to the mock-up of the B2707, opps Boeing got rid of that years ago. The irony of it all is just too sweet for words. |
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11-03-2003, 11:06 PM
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with all the trouble over the decades of making SST feasible in the US, I wonder if the concept still has a chance to come to fruition here
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Boeing already bagged the idea of the sonic cruiser... We can only hope they decide to do the 7E7 here.
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11-04-2003, 08:14 AM
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so do I but I'm definitely not holding my breath on that
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that is curious.
I have been parking my concorde in front of my APT for 3 months now. no one has said anything, much less written an article about it. I don't like Boeing. My granpa was just about to retire from them and they cut him short and gave him a watch. |
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11-06-2003, 12:17 AM
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well, let's just say the Concorde we're talking about wasn't built by AMC
 sorry about your grandfather. perhaps it'll help that the Concorde wasn't built by boeing 
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Beautiful plane.....
How's the museum up in Seattle? I'm out there once in awhile. Just got my first look at the Wright/Patterson Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH last summer. It is better than what I remember from the Air & Space Museum in DC, though I haven't seen the new Dulles Annex yet....
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The Boeing opps Seattle, Museum of Flight is one of the top museums in the world......
Wright Pat and Air and Space are up there as well. All worth visit. If you're eve over here the place o go is Duxford....and they have a shed load of Airworthy aircraft as well...... http://www.iwm.org.uk/duxford/index.htm |
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The museum is awsome. There are a whole lot of planes there, all very well cared for. An SR-71, an old Air Force One, etc. I have a couple of friends that work there.
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The Germans may build great cars, but they have to admit that Boeing built a great bomber back in the 40's. I have an uncle who piloted a B-17. He didn't want to fly again after the war...but I don't think that was Boeing's doing...
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If WWII had gone a few months longer, we all might be speaking German right now. The Germans had an advanced jet program that was just about ready to pardon the pun get off the ground when the war ended, Thanks to your uncle and other B-17 pilots. The Germans had a jet powered flying wing much like our stealth bomber of today.
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The Germans had the weapons to win before 1945.....but they didn't use them to their 'best' advantage.
But then again nobody had ever used them before and its only after the event that you figure out what the best use was.... Luckily for us. PS Both the Arado 246 (?) a twin engine jet bomber and the Horten FLying wing (AKA B" in 1944/45) will be displayed at the Udvar Hazy Centre at Dulles international in the near future. Check out that hi-tech stuff, even compared to the B-29. Also just to nit pick the MoF in Seattle has the only survinig M-12 aircraft. Its version of the SR-71 predecessor the A-12, modified to carry a D-21 drone and the launch control officer in the second rear seat..... A12 are to SR-71 what early long hoods are to post 74 911, lighter and more numble but pretty much the same... |
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I was at Boeing Field to watch the Concorde make its final landing.
Way cool. The following day, I heard the captian say on a radio interview that Seattle was chosen because of the excellent care that airplanes receive at the MoF. It's one of the top museums anywhere. |
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sad but true
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It's nice to know that we have such a highly regarded Museum of Flight here in Seattle
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Point taken.
I hope to see the Seattle museum on my next biz trip....
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Sorry, that was me. Listen Folks: He's not saying sad but true about the museum. I got a little off topic - didn't realize it would mess up his post. Post ahead of his read:
Not really. If WWII had gone a few months longer, some German city would have the unhappy distinction that Hiroshima now holds.
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