Really disturbing photos showing the retired British Airways Concorde G-BOAD were recently posted at nycaviation.com
The photos reveal how bad this historic plane was treated over the past years. The nose cone broke off, the paint is peeling and birds are craping in its engines.
All photos at: http://nycaviation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12589
The Concorde was given to the USS Intrepid Museum New York, but was moved some years ago to Floyd Bennett Field.
The museum should be ashamed for treating their Concorde like that. There are literally hundreds of aviation museums all over the world which would be proud for having a real Concorde in their collection, but NY just parks her at some airfield like a piece of junk!
To be short - this is a disgrace. GBOAD should be returned to the UK immediately and kept somewhere where she will be appraciated. The fact thet Concorde should never have been retired in the first place (thank you, France) makes pictures like this even more gutting.
Is this the Americans getting their own back as they couldn’t make an SST???? lol Joking, but this is an absolute disgrace…
well, in all fairness the Intrepid is being overhauled until later this fall, so maybe they have planes to refurbish the SST and move her back then?… but i totally agree, to leave it abandoned and unsupervised like a junk heap is an affront to every aviation buff, not to mention all the Concorde lovers…
typical careless yanks. they had no right to have one. This concorde should have been kept in the UK, her home, where she would have been cared for and appreciated. This has brought tears to my eyes. HOW DARE they treat her like an old banger in a scrap yard. I think she should be brought back home, or somewhere where she can be restored to all her glory. This is criminal. I cannot believe it!! They were always jealous of her anyway. Maybe they want her to rot through their jealousy! Well listen here yankies…you cant be best at everything you fools!!!