Re: [doc] CONCORDE VS DELOREAN

[andymabbitt@xxxx]

I couldn't agree more - I'm certainly not saying anything negative about Concorde - as you say it's a miracle of engineering. But I just want to reinforce the fact that we all know. DMC is not the only venture in which the British government have lost money. As a matter of fact, if Branson had got his hands on Concorde I believe he would have led it to further success.

Concorde didn't have cool gull wing doors though did it? ;p

Andy



Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx> wrote:

>Concorde truly is an engineering masterpiece and there's a sense of 
>national price in it over here. There's also an overwhealming sense of 
>utter irritation that BA have grounded it, especially as Richard Branson 
>offered to buy them for Virgin Atlantic to operate, but BA refused. They 
>don't think it's ecomomical to operate any more, but they sure as hell 
>don't want Branson to prove them wrong. The result is that one of the 
>greatest technical feats of engineering of the 20th century will be left 
>as a museum piece when it could still be used.
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>Martin
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>yellowmanwell wrote:
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>>Ok - and this may have been mentioned before but I felt it 
>>particularly pertinent at the moment since everyone is banging on 
>>about Concorde's final flight. I made an interesting discovery today. 
>>I was talking to a guy who worked in financial circles in the past 
>>and he reckons that when taking into account research, development 
>>etc, each Concorde cost the government about £1.32billion. (I believe 
>>they sold each Concorde to BA for about a pound). During their 
>>working lives each Concorde brought in about £600 million. Which 
>>leaves about a £700 million gap on EACH OPERATING CONCORDE. Does 
>>anyone notice anything significant about people continually moaning 
>>about a few quid that DMC (ok ganted, a few million quid) blew away 
>>in the few years it was operating. I am quite willing to agree that 
>>these figures may be approx. but even so there is a hefty deficit.
>>
>>Yeah ok, so Concorde might look cool, but does it have gull wing 
>>doors? I think not.
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