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Concorde flying today?

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The NOS news has on his site (and radio news) that the concorde is making a 2 hours flight today. Has anybody more news about this?

To bad i didn't knew, i want to see her fly so badly..

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At 10.00 am the Concorde took off from Le Bourget to celebrate 100 years of French aviation.

More info in Dutch: http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen ... lucht.html

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Re: Concorde flying today?

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Are you sure :? , can't find that much info about it on the net, so it makes you wonder :wink:
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/fligh ... again.html

Nice to see NOS has reliable sources....... :drinking:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7975877.stm

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Re: Concorde flying today?

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Thank you for that information, but i read that but i am wondering if i missed something about this. If i knew this in advance i would have gone there. And i would not be the only one who would want to see this i think.

Did i miss the news, or was this a spontanious act. I thought that BA had the only fly worthy concorde.

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Very few news-agencies spreaded this hoax. I thought NOS was very reliable...my mistake! They first announced the flight, and then confirmed it just after 10.00 am!

I found it very strange that no-one was aware of the fact that there was an airworthy Concorde in France... :o

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Re: Concorde flying today?

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Shortly before April Fool's Day (01 APR 2009), there was a message on the website of the Musée de l'Air about a Concorde being prepared to make a flying appearance at this year's show at Le Bourget.

I assume this is the aftermath of this April Fool's joke. :drinking:

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If you are able to read French, here is the confirmation on the Museum's website that it was a "poisson d'avril" (April fool's joke)!
http://www.mae.org/fr/concorde-40-ans/c ... avril.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: Concorde flying today?

Post by aviodromefriend »

Come on guys (and girls), the type's certificate was withdrawn by Airbus after the last flight. Maybe there is a machine that is technically capable of flying (actually, the museums that got machines had to maintain them in such a way they are not airworthy), that one is impounded on behalve of the families of the killed persons at the crash.
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