Originally Posted by
Rich170
Pretty sure the surviving condordes were recently fully refurbished ready to back into service and now they are just sat parked up ready to fly. Quite weather they ran out of money or had problems with the paperwork I'm not sure. Would be great to see them fly again!
I think your confusing this with the re-furb prior to re-entering service after the Airfrance Crash in 2001.
Sorry to shatter the dream mate, Olympus593 (A french organisation of ex-concore maintanence crew) have started boroscope checks with a view to re-lighting the olympus engines of F-BTSD. The idea is to get the plane able to do taxi runs for visitors, not a return to flight.
Summed up, BA still own all their airframes and WILL NOT allow anyone to return them to flight, there are no spares, and no chain of supply. Biggest and most important problem is the CAA revoked the type certificate, so without the backing of Airbus, Rolls Royce, and either BA (not happening, there is a contract preventing this tied into something) or AF (who have no spares as they were all auctioned off), there will never be a flying concorde again.
Save concorde group have massively over-hyped reality by saying that there will be a concorde flying over the olympic opening ceremony...... with a budget of £15m to do it, REALISTIC estimates think more like £150m to get one into service, IF you had all the support required.
Just not going to happen
