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Wed, Nov 26, 2003

Concorde: How The Mighty Have Fallen...

Concorde's Last Journey is A Mite Slow

One of the Concordes destined to live on in a museum made it's last laborious trip to its final resting place... by slow boat. After thousands of hours at Mach Two, Concorde G-BOAD headed to a new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in NY's Hudson River via barge. 

The British Airways Concorde, built in 1976, made it's last flight earlier in November before being loaded onto a barge by crane for the trip down the river. The trip reportedly took nearly as long as used to take for the bird to fly form London to New York.
 
The aircraft will be prepared for display over the coming months and open to public display in the spring of 2004. Both the cockpit and the cabin will be open to the public thereafter, while a related museum exhibit dedicated to supersonic flight will be opened in 6-12 months. The aircraft to be displayed was reportedly the fastest bird in the BA fleet, having set a 1996 transatlantic record in which it flew from New York to London in two hours, 52 minutes, and 59 seconds.

FMI: www.intrepidmuseum.org

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