Blue - That poor short wave length get's no respect from the other colors.

Skating - When in the lead there are no grooves in the ice to follow so your not sure it's the correct path.

What's truly amazing, is that as you fly higher in the sky (the highest I ever got, was 56,500 feet), you can physically see with your own eyes the blue sky turn darker - an amazing sight that I'll never forget, and one in which I raised my glass of champaign to

gb009761, 56'500 feet, that is very high for a mere mortal. How did you reach that altitude. The highest I have been is about 40'000 feet in a normal jet plane.

But over 55'000 it was either in a fighter plane or in a more strategic type of plane like SR72, U2 or other, or the Concorde. One other possibility is to do these kind of touristic flights with russian jet fighters up to 60'000 feet.

So what was your trick to go so high?

Lucky man!!!
Too late for me.

Sorry Sekerob and any/all others - that is just a pipe dream that, unfortunately, will never happen.

Along with this forum, I'm also on the Concorde SST forum and on there, there's a great bunch of people who work with the remaining 18 preserved Concorde airframes on a regular basis (which includes one they've basically restored from scratch - at Brooklands). The question of getting one flying again has been raised many-a-time, and unfortunately is simply not now feasible, due to numerous reasons - a few of which, are listed below;

Cost (many hundreds of millions of pounds/euros).
AF don't own any of their airframes anymore and BA aren't interested (they've got enough issues keeping themselves flying in these turbulent times).
Airbus (the type certification holder), aren't interested.
All the part manufacturers (many hundreds, if not thousands), aren't interested - in fact, all the machinery which would be needed to make the parts themselves, would need remaking. Again, don't forget, this was a very complicated aircraft, with many millions of individual components.
Certification - all the spare parts which were sold off, could never ever be used again, due to them now being out in unknown hands.
The engines (of which, I believe, there were a few refurbished at the time), haven't been run for over 7 years now (when Concorde was in service, they were run at least once a week - even during the long grounding they had in 2000-2001).
There's no one certified to fly her anymore (don't forget, there were 3 on the flightdeck - two pilots and a flight engineer). Nor is there a fully, certifiable flight simulator for them to get retrained (yes, there's one in Brooklands, but again, that's not now certified).

There are numerous more reasons why we'll never see her fly again, although I'm sure you're now getting the picture.

BTW, the airframe which this rumour is being put out about, is one of the retired AF fleet which has now been in a museum for several years. This is being cared for by some retired Concorde engineers who have managed to keep 1 of the 3 hydrolic systems operational - and that's how they manage to lower/raise her famous nose on special occasions.