[mgstarr]

Update and longer article on Wired:

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/06/concorde-may-fly-again/

[SERKIT]

Let's get THIS one back in the air!

[OCC]

Maybe we can arrange a Space Shuttle flyover for the 2022 Detroit Olympics!

[pepsionice]

It was an aircraft killed by cheap tickets. When prices were still silly in the 1960s and 1970s...it would have fallen into the might-make-profit category. By the 1980s...with so much in cheap tickets starting...it was only the ultra rich that would have ever used it.

Now, it requires a ton of maintenance to operate each and every flight...so after the Paris flight episode...it was silly to keep running the few left.

[ETL]

[OldDeckHand]

The article that you linked to had another link to an article I found fascinating. It may be found here. Essentially, it says that the original 707 traveled almost 150 mph faster than what the modern passenger jet flies. We're getting slower, not faster. That's irritating.

One of the few regrets I have in life is that I never had the opportunity to fly the Concord, and by "opportunity", I mean I couldn't afford it.

[kingu]

Bringing it back for a fly over of the Olympics? Why? Or is the dream that if it flies over the Olympics, that somehow some mysterious demand will suddenly crop up to get on a flying death trap of a plane that should have been retired from service in the 1980’s?

Just design a better plane and get it over with.

[ETL]

[Secret Agent Man]

I’ll let others fly on the Concorde, thanks.

[wastedyears]

It would take that much time to make one previously-serviced aircraft airworthy again?

[DennisR]

One of the loudest planes ever...