Concorde to be Grounded

Goonie writes "This BBC article reports that Concorde flights are to come to an end in October. It may be a noisy and costly anachronism, but it's sad to see the end of perhaps the coolest commercial plane ever to fly." The financial wires carried a story the other day showing how much jet fuel demand has dropped recently.

Comments

Sweet Concorde!

[YAN3D]

Lancelot: Sweet Sweet concord, you will not have died in vain..

Concorde: Im not quite dead sir

Re:Where are the Concorde replacements?

[vimes]

> good luck finding a train to europe!

found one. folkstone to calais:
http://www3.eurotunnel.com/

The concord : A fair and balanced point of view.

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been watching Foxnews and they told me how simple this world is :

France = bad
UK = good

The concord is a french and british invention, so it's hard to decide if it's good or bad.

Help !

ATrollWhoNeedsHelp.

Re:It's a 30 year old design

[motardo]

You make a good argument, but it's actually even better than you realize. There are plans to turn B-52's into aerial "artillery" platforms by refitting them with nuclear engines, which will allow them to circle a battlefield continuously for periods ranging from several days up to a couple of weeks. If this plan goes through, the USAF stated they may extend the service life anywhere from 50 to 100 additional years.

that's JUST what we need, flying chernobyls

Re:Shame - how is it "almost" as fast?

[ninkendo84]

Yeah, but its quanti-sonic architecture makes it do more work per mach-cycle, making mach .95 seem more like mach 2.2