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Casey - 31 Oct 2003 02:08 GMT

I would have bet money that one of the museums would be the
Smithsonian. Maybe one of the Air France Concordes has been
promised?

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2003/10/1067546275.html

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Mateo - 31 Oct 2003 02:46 GMT

The AF Concorde landed at Dulles a few months ago; June, I believe.
It's going to be at the Udvar-Hazy Center at IAD, not the museum on the
Mall.

> I would have bet money that one of the museums would be the
> Smithsonian. Maybe one of the Air France Concordes has been
> promised?
>
> http://news.airwise.com/stories/2003/10/1067546275.html

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Jeffrey Hacker - 31 Oct 2003 02:53 GMT

Absolutely - an Air France Concorde has been donated to the Smithsonian -
Udar Hazy Air & Space Museum at Dulles Airport in Washington, and will be on
display there when that museum opens in December, along with such airplanes
as the Boeing 377-80 (Dash 80).

Jeff

> I would have bet money that one of the museums would be the
> Smithsonian. Maybe one of the Air France Concordes has been
> promised?
>
> http://news.airwise.com/stories/2003/10/1067546275.html

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Tony Rice - 31 Oct 2003 04:24 GMT

This is true, here is the press release from the Smithsoneon:

http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/pressroom/releases/061103.htm

http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/udvarhazy/construction/month_display.cfm?
monthID=27

> Absolutely - an Air France Concorde has been donated to the
> Smithsonian - Udar Hazy Air & Space Museum at Dulles Airport in
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>> http://news.airwise.com/stories/2003/10/1067546275.html

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Frank F. Matthews - 31 Oct 2003 03:05 GMT

I suspect that the Smithsonian doesn't want to tie up the necessary
space. FFM

> I would have bet money that one of the museums would be the
> Smithsonian. Maybe one of the Air France Concordes has been
> promised?
>
> http://news.airwise.com/stories/2003/10/1067546275.html

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Curled Pubic Hair - 31 Oct 2003 04:05 GMT

> I would have bet money that one of the museums would be the
> Smithsonian. Maybe one of the Air France Concordes has been
> promised?

Smithsonian already got its Concorde from Air France. Ironic that the transfer
happened at a time when americans were renaming anything "french" to "liberty"
or whatever.

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James Anatidae - 31 Oct 2003 06:07 GMT

> > I would have bet money that one of the museums would be the
> > Smithsonian. Maybe one of the Air France Concordes has been
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> happened at a time when americans were renaming anything "french" to "liberty"
> or whatever.

Probably the reason AF did it, to piss off our country's French-hating
morons.

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