How the mighty have fallen:

Everything looks better in PanAm livery. 

• Do I want to fly past the speed of sound? YES

“Boom Supersonic has only built a proof-of-concept plane called the XB-1, which is much smaller and hasn’t even flown yet.”

They should have a race from New York to Long Beach that ends in the Queen Mary parking lot and sell tickets to the celebration party.

Half a billion in debt, in less than five years, on a 250 million $ project!?

damn... that escalated quickly.

I have not been to it in many years... but:

$500M in debt and nothing was even built?  Probably good the city didn’t end up in a 66 year lease with those guys.

I held the record for largest crap 2 years running, look at my Kinja handle. Guess that makes me worth preserving. Would everybody please contribute to my refurbishment maybe some upgrades? Some bits are beginning to look a bit shabby I would love to see everything restored to the immaculate and buff state of the…

I'm twelve percent certain that is how it went down.

I don’t know why people feel that every old piece of shit there ever was requires saving. But I tell you, if we let that shit sink some British people gonna be pissed. Pip pip, Queen and country.

I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!

At first, I thought you were making a political analogy. 

In this case, likely more a BOAB.  She should have been dry docked in 1985 and left there.

It's still necessary. I don't want cruise people on my plane. 

Everyone knows it’s the Germans who attacked Pearl Harbour, but forget it, you’re on a roll.

When they needed to do repairs on one of the ww2 era Battleships (the Massachusetts if I remember correctly), they built a coffer dam around it and drained that to get access to the whole hull so that they didn’t have to tow it to a drydock big enough to accommodate it (I have to imagine this can’t move under its own…

Set up a huge party just off the coast - invite you-tubers, tik-tok stars, social influencers. Roaring 20’s excess! Loud music, beaming laser lights to the heavens, helicopters ferrying in guests, jet boats, booze flowing - then torpedo the fucker.  I’d watch.