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She's Gone !
Supersonic Short
Breaks to NY come to an end for Proggers |
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Closure
over this Useful Service may affect Concert Ticket Sales to Prog Gigs in
England and Scotland Claims Dick Nolan |
For over three decades
American music fans have had the luxury of being able to pop over to
Great Britain to catch Weekend prog gigs. Sadly British venues are
likely to be hardest hit by the grounding of Concorde.
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| Dick's Sad Eyes
Last week saw the final scheduled flight for one of Britain's
best loved assets touchdowned at Heathrow Airport. Three planes
touched down together in what It Bites's bass player has
called "The Most Expensive Convoy in History"
"Each plane is worth hundreds of pounds so multiply that by three
and you've broken the bank"
"It is the saddest day in Aviation History" Claims Dick
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Dick's Astonishing Fact
"If you filled the interior with bananas
and then peeled them all and cut each skin into hundreds of tiny
strips, then joined each strip one-by-one together then you'd be
able to reach the moon and back, that is how amazing Concorde was"
explains Dick.
"Now that BA have stopped the plane,
supersonic flight is sadly unaffordable for the average man in the
street as only the wealthy can afford to charter fighter-aircraft or
the Space Shuttle in order to break the sound barrier, for
many this will be too expensive" |
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dismayed as he witnessed the final flight.
"Concorde, was the flagship of the British Airways fleet, and the
world's only supersonic passenger aircraft. She holds many World
Records, including fastest crossing of the Atlantic from New York to
London in 2 hours 54 minutes and 45 seconds."
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Effects on Concerts
Silhobbit think that the effects on rock concerts could be
devastating.
Americans eager to pop over for weekend gigs will be put off by 8
hour flights, double what it was before. Festivals like
Rotherham's Awards Night, Whitchurch and Progeny 2003
will be hardest hit as much of the audience was made up of Americans
flying over from New York on the Saturday morning Concorde flight
and returning on the Sunday afternoon flight.
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| Bob's Sadness
Frequent Concorde flier Bob Dalton was also saddened.
"Even after It Bites I still found it was the best way to
fly" Bob explains
"It was part of the British heritage and the envy of the
world. Hi tech countries like Japan, America and Jamaica
envied our technology and design. Now children will not be
able to see the amazing sight of such a beautiful aircraft
flying like a bird and landing like a swan.
Something should be done to keep such a plane in the air, it would
be like McDonalds doing away with the BigMac - both have a
major significance in 20th Century culture and should be preserved."
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But not everyone was sad to see the old bird
go.
Phil Collins complained that it was "perverse" and "self
indulgent".
"How can someone spend thousands on one flight whilst there are
homeless people living in piss on the streets?"
Now that Concorde has gone the ex-Genesis drummer can sleep at night
knowing that extra money can now be used to solve the problem of
vagrancy in London.
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Editor's Comments
Nobody can't deny that seeing Concorde
up in the sky is an awesome sight.
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