Re: FN-FORUM: Last Concorde

date posted 24th October 2003 18:51

actually, the Concorde made =A340m profit a year before the Charles De=20=

Gaulle crash, and it's just the world economic downturn that killed the=20=

thing... it was a feat of technical genius and will be missed greatly!


On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 04:34 pm, Norman Beresford wrote:

> Pity that it's a gas guzzler that does nothing but produce excesive
> noise pollution whilst ferrying the obscenely rich back and forth. =
The
> only decent thing about it was that it atleast made those rich people
> sit in discomfort for three hours (whilst being plied with booze so =
I'm
> sure they didn't really notice). I'm not going to miss it for a =
single
> moment.=20
> =20=