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According to a motorcycling forum subscribe to. CAn't find it documented elsewhere though
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Yet it's Remembrance Day and entry to the entire museum is free.
duxford.iwm.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.129
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Just back from Duxford, where the weather was unseasonably marvellous. Lots of people of course.
I'm thinking I should have succumbed to the £39 ride in the historic DH Dragon Rapide, but it was getting a bit late given we are going home via the daughter in Cambridge.
Very pleasant day.
www.duxfordflying.co.uk/index.php?pageid=588
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Try it next time Manatee. Flew on one about thirty years ago from Biggin Hill around and over Chartwell. Brilliant.
Still in airline service between Lands End and the Scillies until the mid sixties.
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Been there today. Quite crowded (obviously) though.
Boarding Concorde was exciting but was not impressed seeing the inside (looked majestic from outside though)! Inside was very cramped. But honestly one needs to appreciate the engineering achievement rather than comfort.
Concorde should not have been grounded. Such a wastage of marvelous engineering.
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>> Concorde should not have been grounded. Such a wastage of marvelous engineering.
Yes marvelous engineering, but it was falling to bits - many incidents and over a 100 deaths says it should have been grounded.
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>> >> Concorde should not have been grounded. Such a wastage of marvelous engineering.
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>> Yes marvelous engineering, but it was falling to bits - many incidents and over a
>> 100 deaths says it should have been grounded.
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Oh come on - ONE crash in all the time they flew.
I am aware of other incidents, as I am with Airbuses, Boeing's finest, and all other makes of aircraft.
Yes they needed investment, and got some just before the grounding!
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One Crash, MANY incidents. MANY maintenance issues.
It was rapidly becoming a death trap.
Given the number of incidents and the number of deaths vs the number of passenger miles, it does not even come close to jumbo levels of safety.
IF it was making shed loads of money, IF it wasnt becoming unreliable, IF it wasn't such a pig to keep in the air, IF it didn't need loads of money to keep it airborne, it would still be flying wouldnt it.
Its not
That a single SMALL strip of metal thrown up from the runway can bring down a plane with a 100 deaths is a safety issue too far.
Last edited by: Zero on Sun 13 Nov 11 at 18:45
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Free Entry to RAF Duxford on 13.11.11 - CGNorwich
