A British and French team are working on the possibility of returning a former Air France Concorde to flying status as part of a Le Bourget Air and Space Museum effort to preserve the Concorde as a piece of living history. Very exciting news to this aviation buff.
Concorde was and is one of the all time cool airplanes, along with the SR-71, who performed marvelously and well beyond their era.
BBC News - Work starts in £15m plan to get Concorde flying
The engines on a French Concorde are to be examined as the first move in a £15m project aiming to get the supersonic passenger jet back in the air. The Rolls Royce engines of the former Air France Concorde will undergo an initial examination to see what work needs to be done to start the engines.
Concorde was retired seven years ago, but it is hoped the jet could return to flight in a heritage capacity. The tests by a French-British team will take place at an air museum near Paris.
The work at the Le Bourget Air and Space Museum is being done through a partnership between the British Save Concorde Group, SCG, and a French group Olympus 593.
'Critical date'
Vice-chairman of SCG Ben Lord said: "Today marks the most critical date in Concorde's history since she was retired almost seven years ago.
"Two members of our management team are in France this weekend to observe these amazing developments. "SCG has always maintained that she could return to flight in a heritage capacity, and the findings of today will hopefully go an awfully long way to proving our point.
via news.BBC.co.uk
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