Re:Epic Forum Thread on Concorde (2010)
by idlewords on Saturday September 06, 2014 @02:22PM
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9/11 only affected Concorde to the extent that there was a slump in the whole airline industry. It's not like people fled that plane in particular for bizjets due to waiting times.
The immediate impetus for retiring the plane seems to have been the prohibitive cost of rewiring on the whole fleet, to bring it into compliance with stricter modern requirements.
It didn't help matters when one of the Concordes briefly caught fire over the Atlantic due to an electrical short, something that was only discovered after the fact.
The immediate impetus for retiring the plane seems to have been the prohibitive cost of rewiring on the whole fleet, to bring it into compliance with stricter modern requirements.
It didn't help matters when one of the Concordes briefly caught fire over the Atlantic due to an electrical short, something that was only discovered after the fact.
It's all in the thread, man!