hi catchup, I've been looking for your post, too, since I made a reply in it, with pictures of the Air France Concorde in the Sinsheim museum (or is that the reason for it being pulled? would be very odd I think.....)
I don't think the Concorde wasn't a sales success because the airlines didn't want it... it was because they couldn't FLY it to the airfields they would have liked to have flown to. What's the use of an aircraft if there are too many restrictions? No overflying of the USA, and countries in Europe except France and England. You have an airplane to take people where they want to go, not to some place out of the way.
As I said in the now disappeared thread, innovation is more important then in which country an aircraft, or anything else for that matter, is built or produced! Competition is healthy and should be seen as such and not as a reason to bash!
Westy