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.