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<blockquote data-quote="RadDave" data-source="post: 1621736" data-attributes="member: 234411"><p>Hi <strong>Nick</strong> - don't want to bore all, but I believe the date was the late '80s - my colleague & I were replacing 5-6 remote GI fluoroscopes @ a 2.5 million dollar cost then - we had older Siemens units then and debated between that company (Erlangen, Germany just north of Nuremberg) & GE (Liege, Belgium) - well, we had issues w/ our current units and wanted to visit the 'factory', so both Siemens & GE brought the two of us to Europe and we traveled from Paris to Belgium, then to Germany, and finally back to Paris - a hectic week!</p><p></p><p>Well, I had been to Europe probably 10x and did not want to fly coach, so I told my colleague that I would go if we could fly 'first class' - well the price came back as $5000 round trip and was OKed by both companies who were splitting our expenses (i.e. cost to us nothing) - so I asked 'how much' would it cost to fly on the Concorde? Well, that month or so, the price was the same as first class on a sub-sonic plane - HEY, no decision - the Concorde round trip for free! </p><p></p><p>We took off from Kennedy about 7 PM, and once over the ocean the afterburners were activated and it felt the same as rapidly accelerating in your car - there was a 'mach meter' over the front aisle (kind of like the attached pic - not sure if the altitude was also there - this was the French Concorde, but there were pilot comments) - but we were going twice the speed of sound at over 10 miles above the ocean - and even at that height, I touched the windows which were warm - WOW - there aren't many atmosphere molecules up there! We arrived at our hotel in Paris about 11 PM their time.</p><p></p><p>I won't go into all we done (a complete other post) - but on return from Paris to Kennedy, grab a cab to La Guardia, and a flight back to North Carolina - I got home before I left Paris - it was indeed an experience. Dave <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]21317[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RadDave, post: 1621736, member: 234411"] Hi [B]Nick[/B] - don't want to bore all, but I believe the date was the late '80s - my colleague & I were replacing 5-6 remote GI fluoroscopes @ a 2.5 million dollar cost then - we had older Siemens units then and debated between that company (Erlangen, Germany just north of Nuremberg) & GE (Liege, Belgium) - well, we had issues w/ our current units and wanted to visit the 'factory', so both Siemens & GE brought the two of us to Europe and we traveled from Paris to Belgium, then to Germany, and finally back to Paris - a hectic week! Well, I had been to Europe probably 10x and did not want to fly coach, so I told my colleague that I would go if we could fly 'first class' - well the price came back as $5000 round trip and was OKed by both companies who were splitting our expenses (i.e. cost to us nothing) - so I asked 'how much' would it cost to fly on the Concorde? Well, that month or so, the price was the same as first class on a sub-sonic plane - HEY, no decision - the Concorde round trip for free! We took off from Kennedy about 7 PM, and once over the ocean the afterburners were activated and it felt the same as rapidly accelerating in your car - there was a 'mach meter' over the front aisle (kind of like the attached pic - not sure if the altitude was also there - this was the French Concorde, but there were pilot comments) - but we were going twice the speed of sound at over 10 miles above the ocean - and even at that height, I touched the windows which were warm - WOW - there aren't many atmosphere molecules up there! We arrived at our hotel in Paris about 11 PM their time. I won't go into all we done (a complete other post) - but on return from Paris to Kennedy, grab a cab to La Guardia, and a flight back to North Carolina - I got home before I left Paris - it was indeed an experience. Dave :) . [ATTACH=full]21317[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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