{"id":8714,"date":"2010-06-21T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T11:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/iconic-concorde-could-return-for-2012-olympics-if\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:35:13","slug":"iconic-concorde-could-return-for-2012-olympics-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/iconic-concorde-could-return-for-2012-olympics-if\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8714 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/iconic-concorde-could-return-for-2012-olympics-if\/attachment\/8715\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tumblr_l4d4b2eq3x1qzxaqho1_100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/d31Ua1q\" target=\"_blank\">Iconic Concorde Could Return for 2012 Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If only they would resume flights to Dulles so I could get a shot of one flying&hellip; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The retired &ldquo;Rolls Royce Of The Skies&rdquo; &ndash; which held a record average cruise speed of Mach 2 &ndash; could be revived for &ldquo;heritage flights&rdquo; just in time for the 2012 Olympics  in London.<\/p>\n<p>A four-month trial related to the Air France Concorde crash that killed 100 passengers and 9 crew members in 2000 ended days ago and now &ndash; through a partnership between the British Save Concorde Group, SCG, and French group Olympus 593 &ndash; a British-French team is conducting tests at the Le Bourget Air and Space Museum in France to get four Rolls Royce engines running smoothly and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8712806.stm\" target=\"_blank\">the world&rsquo;s first supersonic passenger jet back in the air<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic Concorde Could Return for 2012 Olympics If only they would resume flights to Dulles so I could get a shot of one flying&hellip; \ud83d\ude41 The retired &ldquo;Rolls Royce Of The Skies&rdquo; &ndash; which held a record average cruise speed of Mach 2 &ndash; could be revived for &ldquo;heritage flights&rdquo; just in time for the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/iconic-concorde-could-return-for-2012-olympics-if\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8716,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions\/8716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}