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Originally posted by Mean Mr. Mustard@Jun 15 2005, 12:57 PM
The failure of the Concorde didn't have to do with the production of the Concorde in any way, but there were two main reasons if memory serves me correct, the first being that of the infamous crash in 1998 I believe. And the second the amount of fuel required was huge, and thus it wasn't economically feasable.
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I don't think the fuel was a big of an issue as the crash was. It was all rich guys flying on it, they could affort the fuel.
IIRC, the crash investigation uncovered something that had to be inspected / retrofitted, which made it unviable to continue using the aging air frames.