Bill wrote<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Roy Coates <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roy@flightlab.liv.ac.uk">roy@flightlab.liv.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Rick Davis wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> Well Mr. Coates,<br>
> I certainly found your Co"G" spot! (sorry)<br>
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</div>le groan...<br>
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> That was a wonderful breif on the workings of that bird. Thank you. You<br>
> should post that to Wikki. I guess what I heard was right (although lacking<br>
> the detail)<br>
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</div>Heh. Where do you think I found all that info !?<br>
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> Concorde was an incredible machine no doubt. I was also told it had 6<br>
> computers, could fly on two, but if two went down it would just find the<br>
> closest place to land in it's limited list of available airports. I don't<br>
> think the Pilots really had a lot of control over this aircraft. If there<br>
> were no computers for example, you are dead. It wont fly that way except<br>
> tumbling straight down. Basically an upper atmosphere missile with wings.<br>
> The prep time to get this thing in the air is reported to be huge. I have<br>
> seen pictures looking forward to the cabin. The station on the right is the<br>
> fuel transfer module??? Looks like the bloody Space Shuttle! Maybe more room<br>
> in the Space Shuttle.<br>
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</div>I'm not a concord fan at all. I had a rummage around the one on display at<br>
Manchester and really don't know what all the fuss is about. Then again,<br>
certainly in the aviation heritage world, concord has been rammed down<br>
your throat for far too long. I much prefer the old 1950's birds myself.<br>
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--Wait a minute if the Concorde was such a great friggin plane then ONE word on</blockquote><div>this THIS was fantastic airplane the XB-70 faster,higher,farther up in the air </div><div>LOOK ! it's super bird a stRange visitor from another PLANET for truth ,justice and the AMERICAN WAY</div>
<div><br></div><div>BILLY </div><div><br></div><div>SORRY GUYS I guess I'M starting to smell the 4th when we chased all you blokes outa here but we've</div><div>come to LOVEYA </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Roy Coates.<br>
Dept of Engineering.<br>
Liverpool University.<br>
E-Mail: <a href="mailto:r.coates@liv.ac.uk">r.coates@liv.ac.uk</a><br>
Tel: 0151 794 4862<br>
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