Farewell to Concorde

espanol_man SG

Farewell to Concorde -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2003/concorde_retirement/

Woah.... end of an era for humanity man... Concorde is retired. heard some of these in the past. dun know if it is true. can anyone verify?

1. Concorde is somehow related to a supersonic bomber project (XB70?).
2. SIA was interested in concorde at one stage and there was even a concorde in SQ colours.

wonder if concorde can be converted for any military use? e.g. recce jet ala SR71. special strike ala B1 bomber?

foxtrout8 SG

I will rather use the corcorde as a fast troop-transporter .... We will be able to sent troops in large amount , within a shorter period of time.

Blockhead SG

Yups, i think that SIA operated a Concorde together with British Airways for a while back in 1980. The SIA colours were only on one side tho.

Photo from www.concordesst.com

eurofighter SG

In fact, there were several airlines interested in the Concorde, one of them being SIA. However after seeing that it was not economical to fly, the interest in the Concorde dropped.

Hmm.. I dun think it's a good idea. It really can't carry that many troops compared to C-5 or C-17.

I will rather use the corcorde as a fast troop-transporter .... We will be able to sent troops in large amount , within a shorter period of time.

|-|05| SG

Yep the concord by SIA was only half...the other half had BA colours....It was 1989 i think not too sure.It was a joint route

duotiga83 SG

i read that due to noise problem that this procure is scrap Sad

foxtrout8 SG

Yah , but the speed of that plane is unmatchable. The advantage of that corcorde is on her speed , not so much on her capacity...

branzzz SG

yeah but she burns fuel like crazy. actually, the SIA concorde thing was dropped mainly because malaysia placed a ban on supersonic overflights. imagine if SIA had a concorde…that speedbird is the more graceful and sleek thing in the sky.

SlowPoke SG

the RAF once considered using militarised Concordes to carry and launch nuclear tipped cruise missiles…. sort of like the Brit version of the B-1

|-|05| SG

Nope......that is a myth....the concord is infact more quiet then the B707 and B737 i think

espanol_man SG

foxtrout8: "use the corcorde as a fast troop-transporter .... We will be able to sent troops in large amount , within a shorter period of time".

hmmm, good idea! wonder why haven't the other airforces thot of it? the concorde is certainly faster than C5s, C141s, C130s etc... perhaps rather than retiring the concorde the RAF or USAF should buy them over.

side tracking a little bit, imagine an Air Force One Concorde....

espanol_man SG

thanks for the pic, Blockhead! never thot i would get to see SQ colours on the concorde. as for troop carrying, i was watching BBC yesterday. The concorde can only carry 100-odd passengers, but they actually had design plans to build a 250-odd passenger version. even if the passenger capacity is limited, the adv is that concorde flies nearly 4 times faster than the other troop carriers which translate to better and faster rxn time.

SlowPoke: "the RAF once considered using militarised Concordes to carry and launch nuclear tipped cruise missiles.... sort of like the Brit version of the B-1"

yeah, heard of that before.... wonder what happened to that idea?

|-|05| : "concord is infact more quiet then the B707 and B737"

actually, concorde is only more quiet for the passengers inside. the external roar of the afterburning jet engines are still more noisy than normal jets. in addition, there is the sonic boom what the plane hits mach 1....

No matter what, i still think the US or brits should consider the military applications for the concorde before retiring it....

|-|05| SG

Er???According to my article it is.......hmm...ill go find again to confirm

|-|05| SG

Singapore to London Concord service was stopped in 1980 nov 1st due to low passenger volume.
The plane flies too high for the sonic boom to have any effect on the ground(twice that of a B747)If it was flying low it'd have slower down to sub sonic liao.

|-|05| SG

Ahhh paisei the concord is quieter then the B747 and the B707 not the B737...heeh
Infact the reason why the judge in the US threw out the goverment ban on concord flights was because the B747 and B707 the 2 most commonly used planes then were louder then it!
http://www.concorde-jet.com/e_bruit.htm
Taken frm official concord site a graph of all the commonly used planes and the concord's noise levels.

espanol_man SG

ooops... can't believe that concorde is actually more silent that the slower carriers!

thanks for the link!

Lim Wei Ming SG

the concorde.