Let's get Concorde flying again!

In article <1135777697.062771.98150@g49g2000cwa.. com>,
Concorde <concorde@kulwant.net> wrote:

> Please spare a minute to show your support for Concorde...

It's a noisy, fuel-wasting dinosaur. I'll pass.

> If it's a dinosaur, then why is it more advanced than anything
> in commercial service today?
>
In what way pray is it more "advanced" than,say, an airbus?

David

Paul <Paul wrote:

> The hoy poloi

That's about the fastest way of demonstrating that you are one of the
unwashed herd.

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:40:51 +0000, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk>
wrote:

>Paul <Paul wrote:
>
>> The hoy poloi
>
>That's about the fastest way of demonstrating that you are one of the
>unwashed herd.

Could we add the phrase "well heeled" some where in the above
sentence!!?? Just before unwashed would do.

Paul.

On 28 Dec 2005 09:35:42 -0800, geoffm@u1.netgate.net (Geoff Miller)
wrote:

>Which, while well and good, has nothing to do with the matter of
>whether the Concorde is advanced.

It was advanced it no longer is. It is out dated. Now stop talking
like a thick job. Go and watch TV, listen to the radio but leave this
topic to the big lads. There's a good boy!

Carstairs-MacKracken

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:57:08 +0000, Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk>
wrote:


>The same logic can be applied to the Space Shuttle.
And that is a total waist of American taxpayers money and also a waste
of space .

In article <doujag$ibp$3@genet.malloc.co.uk>, Steve Firth
<%steve%@malloc.co.uk> writes
>Paul <Paul wrote:
>
>> The hoy poloi
>
>That's about the fastest way of demonstrating that you are one of the
>unwashed herd.

Children, children, no need to squabble. After all who speaks ancient
Greek these days?
--
Mike Lindsay

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:36:33 +0000, Philip W Lee
<phil(at)lee(hyphen)family(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:

>No aircraft can fly safely under the conditions imposed on it by
>incompetent operating staff

Were they incompetent?

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:39:51 +0000, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk>
wrote:

>I wish that people would learn how to post to Usenet.

Get a grip on yourself. Stop acting and talking like an absolute
numpty. You are verging on being an embarrassment to yourself.

Carstairs-MacKracken

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:14:40 +0000, Philip W Lee
<phil(at)lee(hyphen)family(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:


>Having studied the investigative reports in detail, I would have been
>happy to fly on concorde the next day, but you couldn't pay me enough
>to fly Air France.
They may be expencive but the only time I feel safe in the air is when
I am on board a British Airways aircraft .