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Old 3rd Dec 2012, 12:39
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Lord Bracken
 
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Before the France-trashing gets out of hand, it's worth remembering that France had the UK government over a barrel in the 1960s and stopped the project from being cancelled several times. So without them, there might not have been Concorde at all.

And again worth remembering the contribution made by Airbus after the accident to get the aircraft back in the air. You might also factor in the fact they wanted to divert engineering resource away from Concorde and towards the A380 which at that point was two years from first flight.
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