Concorde....

I strongly suspect that the American airline companies
were leaned on by the US Government not to buy Concorde,
so that they could wreck the European aircraft industry
and see off a competitor to their own companies. Same
as they try to wreck every other countries economies
in their own interests. So called Globalisation equals
Americanisation!

Once Great Britain had thriving aircraft industry,
with companies such as Handley-Page, Avro, Vickers,
Supermarine, Miles, De Havilland. Now all we do is
make wings for Airbus, and even that industry is up
for sale.

I can perfectly well understand why the Arabs in the
Oil producing countries, which the US also tries to
dominate, hate the Americans so much!

Derek Copeland

At 03:54 11 June 2006, Jack wrote:
The dozens of airlines who optioned and then refused
Concorde, leaving
the Governments of Britain and France deservedly holding
the bag, are
powerful evidence that the 'bean-counters' were right,
as were the
directors who actually made the [non]investment decisions.