the french are very proud of Le Concorde.......and you my friend, will quickly be branded a "Connard!"
Why on earth would a frenchman want to call me duck?????
I take on board the points made, and indeed, the majority of the French people are pasionate about the old girl. This goes a little deeper though. During the time of Concorde design and build, we had the greatest aircraft industry in the owrld. Flying the first jet airliner. Companies such as AVRO's, Hawker Siddeley and so-on. What are we left with now, BAE systems, who it would appear are if not owned by Airbus, are certainly run by them.
We have given away all our expertise in this field to the French in this manner, and Concorde was the icing on the cake. I admit the the entire French nation didn't kill the machine, but neither did they do much to save it!!