[VOA]

Peter Greenburg ("The Travel Detective") commented today that "If you want to fly the
Concorde, book your flight quick. The operational days of the Concorde are probably numbered".

Greenburg does a two hour "travel" show on KABC 790AM (major talk radio station
owned by Disney; www.kabc.com) and he's pretty much a "straight shooter" on travel/tourism
matters. He appears occassionally on NBC's Today Show.

Greenburg also said that one contributing factor to the end of the useful life of the Concorde
is that much of the advance/innovation of civil aviation lives off what happens in
military aviation research.
He said something like "the military is into stealth craft...and that isn't going
to translate into revolutionary products for civil aviation".
(Greenburg was giving proper credit to all the brave/brainy test engineers/pilots of
the military...he was NOT blaming them for the likely end of the Concorde...)

[mombonn]

"If you want to fly the Concorde, book your flight quick.

I'm more likely to book an elective root canal.