BAC Compression Lift on Concorde Mk 2 designs.

An old chum of mine form the build days of Concorde who worked in the design office at the time recalled that BAC had considered using the Compression lift idea on the early layout drawings for the Mk 2 Concorde and serveral months of testing with models was undertaken, The Idea was eventually shelved due to the extrodinary amount of wieght that would be required for the machinery too actually make this idea work in a commercial airliner, however he did say that they all agreed the idea was sound, had considreable potential in a possible future SST design as long as the weight penalty could be negated, such a pity that even with out this idea the MK2 was never progressed further than the drawing board. 🙁