Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!hadron!klr
From: klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Number of Concorde ever build
Message-ID: <834@hadron.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 15:25:23 GMT
References: <8812270136.AA22740@crash.cts.com> <13081@cup.portal.com> <4595@mtgzy.att.com> <kXoVNsy00Xc-46vEU2@andrew.cmu.edu> <209@s5.Morgan.COM>
Reply-To: klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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In article <209@s5.Morgan.COM> frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner) writes:
>In article <kXoVNsy00Xc-46vEU2@andrew.cmu.edu> jd3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jean-Marc Debaud) writes:
>>[Concorde] was killed by the refusal of the US to let it land
>>in NY. (Tell me about protectionism....).
>
>I *do*, however, remember seeing the Concorde at JFK when I was passing
>near the airport.  Landing rights were eventually secured.

The Concord also makes weekly visits to Northern Virginia's Dullas
International Airport.  That droopy nosed approach looks really strange
coming over the trees.

I still have memories (and pictures) of the Concord doing a high-speed
(subsonic), low altitude wing-waggle salute over the mated Space Shuttle
Enterprise and 747 transporter, when it visted IAD a few years ago.