When Will Damaged Concorde Get Towed ?

[moose135]

According to the Intrepid web site, tickets are $19.50 (purchased on-line, there is a $1.50 fee if purchased at the museum) for adults, with discounts for seniors, veterans, etc. That will get you into all the exhibits - the Intrepid, the Concorde, the Growler, etc.

[PhilDernerJr]

Only $19.50 to get in some growler? NICE!

[Speedbird1]

Yes, there is no more crummy barge. She has a nice space on the pier. Unfortunately, as I previously stated, they erected high flagpoles surrounding where G-BOAD will sit; thus blocking the view from the north. As someone remarked, she will be towed back to the Intrepid without her noses' radome, it will be kept hush-hush as to avoid bad publicity. remember when they announced that she would be kept safe on land during the Intrepid repairs?

[Gerard]

> As someone remarked, she will be towed back to the Intrepid without her noses' radome, it will be kept hush-hush as to avoid bad publicity.<

LOL we can fix that.

[h2opunk1822]

i give it till tomorrow before the world knows what time shes moving back!

[Speedbird1]

Any news of when the tow will be? Bay Crane won't tell when. I have a feeling it will happen at a strange time; maybe around dawn to avoid publicity. Isn't the tow too dangerous to do in total darkness such as pre-dawn?

[Speedbird1]

Any news of when the tow will be? Bay Crane won't tell when. I have a feeling it will happen at a strange time; maybe around dawn to avoid publicity. Isn't the tow too dangerous to do in total darkness such as pre-dawn?

[Jetinder]

Isn't the tow too dangerous to do in total darkness such as pre-dawn?

I would have thought its ok as she during her life she did take off and land in the dark and was probably towed in the dark from the hanger to terminal building.

[Jetinder]

Isn't the tow too dangerous to do in total darkness such as pre-dawn?

I would have thought its ok as she during her life she did take off and land in the dark and was probably towed in the dark from the hanger to terminal building.

[moose135]

Isn't the tow too dangerous to do in total darkness such as pre-dawn?

You mean like this other job Bay Crane did recently?

[moose135]

Isn't the tow too dangerous to do in total darkness such as pre-dawn?

You mean like this other job Bay Crane did recently?

[DHG750R]

Just caught a small piece on Newsday.com, saying G-BOAD was put on a crane early this morning to go to a dock in NJ

Story

British SST being returned to NY's Intrepid
October 16, 2008
NEW YORK - A retired British Airways Concorde is being prepared for its return to Manhattan's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

The sleek white supersonic jetliner was lifted aboard a barge on Thursday at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, where it has spent the last year in storage.

The barge then headed to Jersey City, where it will remain until Monday for the final leg of its trip to Manhattan's Pier 86.

[DHG750R]

Just caught a small piece on Newsday.com, saying G-BOAD was put on a crane early this morning to go to a dock in NJ

Story

British SST being returned to NY's Intrepid
October 16, 2008
NEW YORK - A retired British Airways Concorde is being prepared for its return to Manhattan's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

The sleek white supersonic jetliner was lifted aboard a barge on Thursday at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, where it has spent the last year in storage.

The barge then headed to Jersey City, where it will remain until Monday for the final leg of its trip to Manhattan's Pier 86.

[Speedbird1]

It was a surprise to me when I opened up today's NY Daily News and saw the Concorde being towed back to the Intrepid. She was towed sometime on Thursday Oct 16, with no advance warning. Why was it kept secret? How did the newspaper reporters know while the public didn't? Also, it looks like the nose was fully repaired. When was it repaired and where? Aviator Sports promised to send me an e-mail before the Concorde was towed so I could take photos. So much for promises. I'm glad she left Floyd Bennett Field. She got terrible treatment there and we weren't even allowed to board the aircraft. She will stay in Jersey City over the weekend until Mondays' high tide. I also never knew that the QE 2 made her last visit ever to NYC yesterday and left for Dubai. She will become a museum there. When will Mondays' high tide be by the Intrepid because that's when she is due to be lifted-up to her new pier. Later, I'll try to ride on the Staten Island Ferry and see where in Jersey City she is. Also, there is no place on land to view her being lifted onto the new Intrepid Pier open to the public. As I said before, they surrounded the Pier with many flagpoles which spoil the view. The only good view would be from on the Hudson River, aboard the Intrepid itself or from the Intrepid Pier ( both closed to the public).

[Gerard]

[quote="Speedbird1"]It was a surprise to me when I opened up today's NY Daily News and saw the Concorde being towed back to the Intrepid. She was towed sometime on Thursday Oct 16, with no advance warning.

Go to http://www.nydailynews.com and click the "NY Local" link at the top and they have a 2 minute video of the move from FB.