Before commercial flights of the famed Concorde were discontinued 20 years ago, a world record flight time of 2 hours, 52 minutes, and 59 seconds was set on a flight from New York City to London. Since then the Concorde plane that set the record has been languishing at Heathrow. In 2010 there was a plan to exhibit one of the Concorde planes next to the London Eye. The project aimed to build a two-story pier next to the London Eye, with an exhibition space on a lower deck, and sitting on top would be one of the Concorde planes.
Now a new scheme called Concorde on the Thames and backed by the Club Concorde members group has launched a new project with a double-deck pier structure with the plane on top and an exhibition space below. This revived plan is based on crowdfunding to raise the money for the project’s development. If they can get the £500,000 they need and get planning permission, they still need to raise millions more for construction and the relocation from Heathrow to the site, as well as restoration of the Concorde. I’d pay to see that.
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