Ten years ago today…

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.

I quite agree.

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 was trying to describe the sight and sound of a Concorde passing over our school (which is on one of Heathrow’s approach paths) to my class of ten-year-old boys recently, thinking it was such a shame that they weren’t alive to witness the spectacle.

A national disgrace that beauty is no longer flying. The most elegant aircraft ever built IMHO.