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I riduy. Ntwcmlwr 28, 2001 STATE W1TISH AIRWAYS 5 PI The Pwrt-Slur. Glen Fulls, N.Y. fey ASSOCIATE) PHI SS A retired Brttlth Airway Concorde neare the Statue of Liberty In New York Harbor on Tuesday on Ks way to the Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum. The 88-ton supersonic Jetliner will become the newest and most exotic addition to the museum's aircraft collection.

Record-setting Speedbird makes slow final journey By RICHARD PYLE Associated Press LOGGING ON For more information on the Intrepid See Air Space Museum visit: www.intrepidmuseum.org nomics discouraged its production. The United States opted instead for wide-body conventional jetliners, which the British-French consortium eventually challenged with its Airbus. The era of supersonic commercial flight was finally doomed after an Air France Concorde crashed on takeoff in Paris in July 2000, killing 113. France halted all Concorde serv ice last May and the British followed in October. For the Intrepid, which has carefully built a varied collection of military aircraft over the past 20 years, getting one of the 18 Concordes still in existence is akin to the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquiring a Van Gogh.

"We're thrilled," said Denise Nash, spokeswoman for the museum. year when both governments retired the planes from service after 27 years, during which they were heavily subsidized and never turned a profit. Full of promise when it began flying in January 1976, the droop-nosed Concorde entranced aviation buffs and was popular with jetsetters who liked the novelty of arriving in New York earlier than they left London. Its ear-blasting takeoff made it less popular with people living near airports. Although the Boeing Co.

designed an American SST to compete with Concorde, environmental concerns and shaky eco Family Gifts Ar? later I think is unique among icons and machines." "I think it's good that she is going to have a nice home," said Andrew Donne, British Airways maintenance chief at Kennedy Airport. "But she will never fly again, so to remove the ability of flight from her is to remove her life." "People who worked on these planes are very emotional about them," he added. David Noyes, British Airways executive vice president for North America, said 75 museums made applications to get a Concorde. He said the Intrepid was chosen because New York is in a sense the aircraft's second home. The permanent barge that will be brought up to eventually serve as the Concorde's home has its own history.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration used it to carry Apollo moon rockets from its factory in Alabama to Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Concorde, the world's only supersonic commercial transport, was a joint British-French endeavor that ended earlier this NEW YORK After years of carrying thousands of celebrities and other well-heeled customers across the Atlantic, the Concorde arrived in New York Harbor on Tuesday like millions of previous European immigrants on a boat. But this immigrant's destination was not Ellis Island; the 88-ton British Airways supersonic jetliner is the newest and most exotic addition to the aircraft collection at the riverfront Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum. The sleek white bird, glistening in the morning sunshine, dwarfed the barge that carried it through New York Harbor on a cold and blustery morning. It glided up the harbor under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, past the Statue of Liberty, in the manner of previous European immigrants, before docking alongside the museum.

The Concorde is one of four British Airways versions that are being farmed out to museums outside the United Kingdom, kVSki and Sports 366 Quaker Road -wlllnrGi including two in the United States. Rather than sharing space on the World War II aircraft carrier's flight deck, the sleek aircraft will occupy its own barge next to the Intrepid pier. The retired destroyer USS Edson was moved to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to make room. The public will be able to board the Concorde when it is officially opened in the spring. "She is absolutely the sexiest machine I have ever seen," said the Intrepid's chief executive, retired Marine Corps Col.

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