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. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT DOC UK Website: www.delorean.co.uk Unsubscribe: doc-uk-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ** Unless otherwise stated, all messages posted to the group are assumed public and may be printed in the club magazine ** Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]