Again, we got fooled. She was towed with her new nose from FBF. When and how the repairs were done are a mystery. Somebody must have filmed it. We were advised that the radome would be repaired after Concorde arrived at the new Pier. The press releases and photos would have showed her with a strange-looking nose, so they did the repairs, I suppose, over at Floyd Bennett. She already had her nose when I spotted her sitting on the barge Friday at the Bayonne pier, not far from the dry dock.
LGA777
They are great photos :) :)
Interesting that in a number of pictures about the return of the Concorde they never mention it was at FBF, only that it was in "storage for a year". Nice spin there.
If their version of "storage" =Originally Posted by Gerard
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1) Having birds nest in the planes engine bits.
2) kids bounce hard rubber balls off the plane and dent it
3) Have the plane's nose accidently broken off
4) Having the plane look like an utter wreck
to name a few things then they know what they can do with their "storage".
Would have been better if G-BOAD had been left on the old barge it was on until Interpid had been repaired.
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