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Matt-100
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There are certain things to do with our industrial and technological heritage that simply must be preserved, and the Concorde is one of them. Shame on BA.

I could be wrong here, but was it not EADS that pulled Concorde from service as they stopped producing the spares? I believe BA would have happily continued flying them for several more years.
That said, even if she had survived past 2003 – she probably wouldn’t have seen past 2009/1010 when the recession was biting heavily into BA’s heels.

A revolutionary aircraft lost forever and even if tomorrow a new supersonic aircraft were announced it wouldn’t be anywhere near as graceful and iconic as Concorde was.