Re: [doc] CONCORDE VS DELOREAN

[Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx>]

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.

Martin

yellowmanwell wrote:

> 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.