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Evening all and welcome to the new people! ***, I think BA and Air France were looking to retire the Concorde anyway. Only a very small number were built and spares were getting hard to find - problem being that there had been no new production of parts since the aircraft were built and the stocks were running low. Considering how little money it made for operators (despite the "halo effect" whereby running something special adds a little to your other services) there was little chance of expensive special orders for spares being placed. I'm not sure how much of a problem fatigue would have been - I recall reading that the repeated heating of the plane by air friction at Mach 2 (it got very warm, to the extent that they had to make use of different alloys throughout the airframe to avoid melting - it expanded by about 1ft overall when cruising!) may have actually extended the fatigue life somehow, not too well up on the science involved there though. Well, the LGB rebuild may have to be put on hold for a while - the ebay parts lot has gone up to what I'd guess I'd pay for the parts new from LGB (via LHS), so will source them that way instead. I've stripped the loco and recovered all reusable parts anyway, so will have to ask next time I'm in - LGB website advises European customers to contact their nearest dealer for parts and has no email address. Fleischmann parts are a lot easier to get hold of - have repaired one loco and have parts on order for another. Bye for now
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