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Veteran
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Concorde has just landed ending an era of supersonic flights.
A sad day.
If you have ever seen or flown in her, you will understand the grace that the big bird has.
Makes you proud to be British.
Fans Focus - Focusing on Fans of Sport (Okay - mainly football (the British variety  at the moment - but expanding all the time....)
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Goddess
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Goddess
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i used to dream about flying on the concorde.
i think it's sad....
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"
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Junior Member
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Why is the Condorde being retired?
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I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
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Didn't that one crash and they uncovered some flaw with it? Or is it because they just aren't selling enough tickets anymore?
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The fact that it cost 9 grand for a round trip flight didn't help much.
They were losing money badly and yes there were mechanical issues as well.
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Old Hand
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There is gonna be a few new planes coming out within next 5 years that will put the concorde to shame and will be cheaper to run.. Have a brother in-law in the business and yeah Concorde was not only losing money but for it's mission it is obsolete
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I think the Concorde also had problems with flight plans -- there were limited routes it could fly because of noise problems over residential areas and sonic booms.
When I saw the title of this thread, "End of an era", I thought it was going to be about the shutting down of a multitude of online pharmacies sites, and the fact that Yahoo has stopped taking advertisements for pills.
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Old Hand
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Well if you were ever in Rockaway Beach in NY when this plane flew out of Kennedy yeah.. I would say it was noisy on some of its flight paths 
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