This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by psa188@xxxxxxxxx /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: IN AMERICA - IN THEATRES NOVEMBER 26 Fox Searchlight Pictures proudly presents IN AMERICA directed by Academy Award(R) Nominee Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot and In The Name of the Father). IN AMERICA stars Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine and Djimon Hounsou. For more info: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/inamerica \----------------------------------------------------------/ Concorde Arrives in New York Harbor November 25, 2003 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 2:13 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- After years of carrying celebrities and other well-heeled customers across the Atlantic, the Concorde arrived in New York Harbor on Tuesday like millions of previous European immigrants -- on a boat. But this immigrant's destination was not Ellis Island. The 88-ton British Airways supersonic jetliner became the newest and most exotic addition to the aircraft collection at the Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum. The sleek, white plane, glistening in the morning sunshine, dwarfed the barge that carried it through New York Harbor on a cold and blustery morning. It glided up the harbor under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, past the Statue of Liberty, in the manner of previous European immigrants. The barge finally docked alongside the World War II aircraft carrier Intrepid, now a floating museum off Manhattan's West Side. Rather than sharing space on the carrier's flight deck, the aircraft is occupy its own barge next to the Intrepid pier. At a ceremony welcoming the Concorde, Arnold Fisher, board chairman of the Intrepid Museum Foundation, said a parklike setting would be created on the barge. ``This gift from British Airways means a great deal to the museum, to New York City and to New York state,'' Fisher said. The Concorde, the world's only supersonic commercial transport, was a joint British-French endeavor that ended earlier this year when both governments retired the planes after 27 years, during which they were heavily subsidized and never turned a profit. The droop-nosed Concorde entranced aviation buffs and was popular with jet setters who liked the novelty of arriving in New York earlier than they left London. Its ear-blasting takeoffs made it less popular with people living near airports. The era of supersonic commercial flight collapsed after an Air France Concorde crashed on takeoff in Paris in July 2000, killing 113. Overhauled Concordes returned to service the following year, but aviation was in a slump because of the Sept. 11 attacks and a miserable global economy. The end finally came when France halted all Concorde service in May and the British followed in October. For the Intrepid museum, which has carefully built a varied collection of military aircraft over the past 20 years, getting one of the 18 Concordes still in existence is akin to the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquiring another van Gogh. ``We're thrilled,'' said Denise Nash, spokeswoman for the museum. She said the Intrepid plans a new exhibit built around the Concorde, focusing on the history of trans-Atlantic travel. It also will be the most important civilian aircraft on display at the Intrepid, sharing top billing with the Lockheed A-12, the forerunner to the Air Force's needlenosed SR-71 Blackbird high-altitude spy plane. Another British Airways Concorde is already at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Air France donated one of its Concordes to the Smithsonian Institution's new National Air and Space Museum being built outside Washington. ------ On the Net: http://www.intrepidmuseum.org http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Concorde-Intrepid.html?ex=1070795034&ei=1&en=5cc522fd0680ebc3 --------------------------------- Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://www.nytimes.com/ads/nytcirc/index.html HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact onlinesales@xxxxxxxxxxx or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help@xxxxxxxxxxxx Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company