On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:40:09 +0000, Eric Miller wrote:

"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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It takes $$$$$$$ to keep airplanes flying not petitions.

Richard Branson of Virgin Airlines offered to keep them flying and was
turned down.
Even if he couldn't keep them in service, he was willing to keep one or
two flying with a £1 million trust fund... and was still turned down.
This was over 6 months ago.

Eric

Not really. Richard Branson used the Concorde retirement for his own ends
in another one of his publicity seeking exercises and to score points over
his old enemy BA. He knew that it was not feasible to keep them flying and
he knew that hell would freeze over before BA handed over those planes to
him. But still he stole the opportunity to appear on TV and proclaim
himself as the savior of Concorde.

And anyway, £1M isn't a lot when it comes to keeping something as complex
as that in the air, even for a few airshow appearances.

K