BBC News - Could Concorde ever fly again? No, says British Airways - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
Oct 24, 2013
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Damn :(
- Iain Baker
3 and a half hours London-JFK. Faster than a bullet from the muzzle of a rifle.
- Iain Baker
Nothing captured my imagination as a 10 year old more than the idea of a supersonic jet. My dad flew the Concorde once, for a business trip. It made him seem to me at the time like he must have been one of the most important people in the world.
- Stephen Mack
Janet: http://youtube.com/watch... gives good details as to why they couldn't immediately use the plane again at the time of that crash.
- Zu from AOD
Very true. A terrible waste of fossil fuel, a nightmare for the ozone layer, all of that is true. However, Concorde at its heart was about a pursuit of excellence, of superior design and innovation. It achieved all of those things, and long after its gone, the atmosphere of striving for that excellence will remain and endure, and I thing that's a pretty positive legacy.
- Iain Baker