If BOAC had been allowed to charge normal fares in the first place, rather than being shafted by the rest, there would have been dozens more Concordes sold.
When a chap from BAC gave us a lecture at school in 1965(?), the brochures he brought to give to us spotty schoolboys had the aircraft displayed in ALL the logos of airlines who'd indicated a willingness to buy - and there were at least 20. The US SST saga (bigger, faster and too expensive) followed, along with 'SSTs cause cancer' or other such utter rubbish whipped up by american (small a, big @rse) tree-huggers and encouraged by sour grapes types in the US aerospace industry and media.
[This message has been edited by BEagle (edited 08 July 2000).]