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Concorde to be Grounded

Posted by michael on from the you-couldn't-afford-it-anyway dept.

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.

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  1. Sweet Concorde! by YAN3D · · Score: 5, Funny
    Lancelot: Sweet Sweet concord, you will not have died in vain..


    Concorde: Im not quite dead sir

  2. The concord : A fair and balanced point of view. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Shame - how is it "almost" as fast? by ninkendo84 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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