Hi WOK, et al!
I never intended anybody to be personally insulted; but maybe I have inadvertently. For that, sorry.
But, to continue, quoting WOK
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My my, 26yrs in service and still a hot topic! ......
And where, pray, do you think Airbus came from? Concorde was the progenitor of Airbus, indeed some of the very clever modern things that A320/330/340s do are straight from the Conc program. No benefit?
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Absolutely agree. Much benefit, kinda like the V2's contribution to the modern space program. But, are we still launching V2s for the Space Station? Modern aircraft developed from previous generations, but who these days still flies Comets or 707's, even though they were brilliant in their day. My, my...26 years in service; back then gas was cheap, nobody cared about noise. Even then, as beautiful as it was/is (no argument there), it couldn't be sold except as a political toy to AF & BA. Everybody knew it was uneconomic. It was anachronistic then, how much more so today!