"Greg Farris" wrote in message
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In article , says...

EADS/airbus have already been supersonic before with the original
Concorde.


Neither EADS nor Airbus existed - the project was a Franco-British
consortium.


Erm!

" A study commissioned by BA of the case for a £17m refit of the supersonic
aircraft, which came into service in 1976, showed that its viability had
ended with the turn of the century stockmarket boom. At the start of 2003,
Airbus-the modern incarnation of the Anglo-French manufacturing partnership
that created Concorde-told Air France and BA, the aircraft's only operators,
that it could no longer provide technical support for the aircraft at
anything like a commercial price. Air France, which never made as much from
Concorde as BA, stopped flying it in May, but BA said it would keep Concorde
going until October simply to please its fans. "