Agree totally with HEATHROW DIRECTOR.
15million is only a start!!. Who is going to crew it, how many test flights at heaven knows what expense, how are the crew going to keep current as per a host of regulations, and, perhaps biggest expense of all, who the hell is going to insure it.
It's all very well for SCG to be hopeful, but, though I'd like to be proved wrong, they might as well p..s in the wind. Not a snowballs chance in hell in my opinion.
Whilst a wave of nostalgia is fine, sometimes things have to let go, and people must move on. Nothing lasts for ever, and I just hope the public doesn't throw money at it before it becomes the inevitable dead duck.
Sorry to be pessimistic, but then I had to eat my hat metaphorically when I said the Vulcan project would fail, which, of course, it may still do, despite some success. Concorde is a non-starter, a hugely technical beast, unlike the relatively simple Vulcan, so thumbs down from me, I'm afraid.Cheers from John, ex- Concorde passenger and current realist.