Farewell To The Concorde

mstamat writes "BBC has a number of features on the Concorde airplanes, the timeline of their existence and their retirement. Among else, there is a virtual tour of Concorde's cockpit and a few words from journalist Mary Goldring who was opposing Concordes from the start."

Comments

You have never taken an engineering class, I guess

[Adam Rightmann]

I recall seeing all the women in my freshmen engineering prep classes. Come senior year, most of them had moved onto other fields (the usual progression was Aero or Electrical or Mech E to Industrial E, then Business, then Elementary Ed, English or Nutrition), they found they enjoyed working with people, children and cooking far more than they enjoyed calculating stresses or thermo problems. It's almost like women were created to be happier at home.

Re:A sad day

[darco]

The thing that killed the aircraft was purely and simply American sour grapes when Boeing finally admitted that their own late entry into supersonic air travel was over budget, overdue and over weight and would never fly. There were plenty of American airline with options to buy, but they all pulled out when the American government then decided to ban overland commercial supersonic flight, making the aircraft practically useless to American airlines. Of course, many military aircraft continue to fly supersonic over the American mainland, and cows still give uncurdled milk, children are not thrown from their beds by the sonic shock-wave, and there are not hoards of angry sleep-deprived and shell-shocked American citizens beating at the doors of congress to limit this evil.

While I agree that it is a shame to loose the Concorde, it boggles my comprehension that you could blame it on the US government. I know that USA bashing is common sport on Slashdot, but WTF? The USA has nothing to do with this.

There were plenty of other viable land-routes in Europe and Asia that were nixed by people with the same naive worries.

If you can prove your claim then I beg you to do so. If you are just trying to look for yet another bogus reason to hate the USA then shut up.