Let's get Concorde flying again!

noddfellow wrote:

Let's get Concorde flying again!

Hi,

A petition to have Concorde flying again even if it is only at air
shows can be found at the following web sites. Those of you who are
interested can add your name to this petition. I ask you to go along
at your earliest convenience and do so

http://www.ethical-business.com/defa...detail&pet=720 or at
www.save-concorde.com

This message has been cross-posted to three other groups. It is hoped
that discussion can take place in all of the groups listed. I
apologise if this up-sets anyone.

Nick Oddfellow

I wish you every luck - but I don't think there's any chance of it.
Concorde is just too hard to maintain for these odd occasions.

She's not like a Lancaster, which can be fixed with a lathe and a
spanner - she's full of obsolete electronics that can't be replaced
without an obsolete chip foundry.

Andy

"Andy Champ" wrote in message
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She's not like a Lancaster, which can be fixed with a lathe and a
spanner

Er, you obviously don't know how hard it is to keep a Merlin flying!.

she's full of obsolete electronics that can't be replaced
without an obsolete chip foundry.

Electronics is by far the simplest to replace, you just can't do it a
component at a time you have to replace a subsystem, but since electronics
constantly gets smaller and better in every way that's not hard to do. To
give an admittedly crude example, if you can't find a part to fix a radio
you can just replace that box the size of a suitcase with one the size of a
car radio!. You can retrofit a glass cockpit to ww2 bomber if you really
want to.

Greg

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:42:04 -0000, Greg
wrote:


"Andy Champ" wrote in message
...

She's not like a Lancaster, which can be fixed with a lathe and a
spanner

Er, you obviously don't know how hard it is to keep a Merlin flying!.

she's full of obsolete electronics that can't be replaced
without an obsolete chip foundry.

Electronics is by far the simplest to replace, you just can't do it a
component at a time you have to replace a subsystem, but since
electronics
constantly gets smaller and better in every way that's not hard to do. To
give an admittedly crude example, if you can't find a part to fix a radio
you can just replace that box the size of a suitcase with one the size
of a car radio!.

See also Vulcan. They've shaved off TONNES of weight just by replacing
the avionics and radar with a GNS430!

You can retrofit a glass cockpit to ww2 bomber if you really
want to.

Electra, anyone?
(not quite WW2, but still, point made)


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PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:
The fine art of whacking the cr*p out of an electronic device to get it to
work again.