A1EX
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Originally posted by SetH
I think we should develop transporter technology.
Jim can test it and end up a gooey mess like the dude in Star Trek the motion picture.
Or a giant insect of some sorts 
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Dom
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Originally posted by Dave
Iirc it had nothing to do with passenger numbers or ticket price, you simply cannot continue to fly a plane if there are no spare parts for it. Virgin knew that, so did BA.
THIS
Wasn't lack of, perhaps cost of creating spare parts but BA and Air France both stated it was lack of passengers and cost of maintenance that caused them to withdraw the Concorde.
And i've never read or watched anything that stated otherwise.
Ian - Didn't realise about the airframe limit.
Hammer - i wasn't assuming anything, merely giving my ideas. Why do you think BA wouldn't sell it's fleet to Virgin?
[Edited on 15-08-2012 by Dom]
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Jambo
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There where no spare parts, as the second "wave" of regeneration was due for manufacturing as i understood it. This would have cost a pretty large sum of money. The ones in existence had either been used or reached their shelf life and had to be renewed.
The cost to re develop and reproduce this, alongside the safety concerns after ironically the most safe aircraft in the world was brought down by a DC10 lead to them closing the programme.
Thats what i was told by someone who worked on the development of the planes originalyl and is now a historian for the restoration and conservation of them.
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Dom
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Originally posted by Jambo
There where no spare parts, as the second "wave" of regeneration was due for manufacturing as i understood it. This would have cost a pretty large sum of money. The ones in existence had either been used or reached their shelf life and had to be renewed.
The cost to re develop and reproduce this, alongside the safety concerns after ironically the most safe aircraft in the world was brought down by a DC10 lead to them closing the programme.
Thats what i was told by someone who worked on the development of the planes originalyl and is now a historian for the restoration and conservation of them.
Never knew that, interesting though...
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Hammer
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Originally posted by Dom
Hammer - i wasn't assuming anything, merely giving my ideas. Why do you think BA wouldn't sell it's fleet to Virgin?
There's probably a mirage of reasons but the main one, no matter in what form, would have been money.
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willay
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http://inhabitat.com/boeings-hypersonic-mach-6-waverider-jet-lost-over-the-pacific-during-flight-test/
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Dave
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Originally posted by Hammer
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Originally posted by Dom
Hammer - i wasn't assuming anything, merely giving my ideas. Why do you think BA wouldn't sell it's fleet to Virgin?
There's probably a mirage of reasons but the main one, no matter in what form, would have been money.
That and Virgin never actually making a formal offer to buy them.
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adiohead
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Originally posted by willay
http://inhabitat.com/boeings-hypersonic-mach-6-waverider-jet-lost-over-the-pacific-during-flight-test/
ps. it's funny that now it's failed "NASA" is exempt from being mentioned in the reporting
[Edited on 16-08-2012 by adiohead]
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Munchie
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it failed
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