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Concorde jet sails to new home at New York museum
( 2003-11-26 16:07) (Agencies)

A supersonic Concorde jet sailed  up the Hudson River Tuesday to its final resting place"The plane left JFK Airport on a barge Tuesday morning after its engines were removed and the remaining fuel was drained to prepare it for the public display.

When the 62.2-meter-long, 88-ton jet whisked passengers across  the Atlantic Ocean in just three hours, round-trip tickets cost  over 10,000 dollars. Visitors, however, will soon be able to climb aboard for the price of admission to the museum.

The Concorde will become part of a permanent new exhibit and  officially open to the public next spring, the museum's chief  executive officer Col. Tom Tyrrell said in a statement.

The Concorde retired from British Airways last month after 27  years of service and its pals' service in Air France halted in May. Both airlines said the service was too expensive to operate, and  the Concordes' image has never recovered from a crash outside  Paris in 2000 that killed 113 people.

The Concorde made an aviation history as the world's only  supersonic passenger aircraft, cruising at more than twice the  speed of sound, and at an altitude of up to 60,000 feet (about 18, 200 meters).

In addition to the Intrepid museum, British Airways selected  six other sites to receive Concordes, including the Museum of  Flight in Seattle.

 
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