RE: [doc] CONCORDE VS DELOREAN

["Kevin Milliken" <kevin.milliken@xxxx>]

Concorde was designed for alternate roles as well. When it was developed it
was the fastest aircraft around with a good load carrying capacity. Thirty
odd years ago we needed an aircraft like that.
Kevin #5959
-----Original Message-----
From: yellowmanwell [mailto:andymabbitt@xxxx]
Sent: 24 October 2003 11:41
To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [doc] CONCORDE VS DELOREAN


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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