[Spoon]

Personally, I'm sorry to see it go. I always liked seeing Concorde fly and hoped to travel on board at some point.
Hopefully, people will be motivated to design and build new passenger planes that both look as good and fly as fast or faster in the near future.

[Ell Mc]

personally i dont give a toss,there is plenty of other types of planes still flying.

[Sidders]

Concorde was too expensive anyway. It always seemed a bit pretentious if you ask me.

[Adam]

Anyone actually been on it?

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

bloke in the mirror got it right it was beautiful but it was also a waste of money and the environment.

[Mcqueen_]

Don't care. Never flown on it.

[~JACQUI~]

ive never been on a plane, and i aint really bothered its just an aeroplane innit?

[Spoon]

It was different to every other passenger plane. I mean if you saw it on the ground it looked tiny but it had such potential. If only they could've enhanced the design and made it cost effective.
I read somewhere that Nasa have developed a design of supersonic plane where the sonic booms are less than 25% the intensity of regular supersonic planes.
If they could make that into the next version of Concorde then it could easily go supersonic over land. That would open the door to more fast planes.
I'm just saying Concorde was the first, it would be nice to know it isn't the last.

[Golden Syrup]

If it makes travelling shorter I like it (I get travel sick on long journeys)

[Morals]

Concorde ruled, except it was part developed by the French. The Russians tried to steal the designs and beat us to it but we slipped them some duff blueprints and * them right up....

[Uglybob]

anyone else see it, it flew over northern ireland yesterday for the last time about half 5 ish

[Gigglyboots]

It was a shame, just the one incident let the whole thing become extinct. I would have liked to travel on it, as an experience, although it would have taken me a considerable amount of money to go on it, I guess. How much was it, a grand or two?

[kendra k]

it should have died out when the supermodels did. it's a thing of the decadent 80s, which are over.

[Adam]

Kendra - Have you seen a Concorde in the sky before?

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

it should have died out when the supermodels did. it's a thing of the decadent 80s, which are over.

it was built in the late 60's cos we couldnt do space... it was never a mark of the 80's because it had style.

[Sidders]

It was only a plane. They were getting old anyway, I'm glad they've been taken out of servive.

[Adam]

why were people crying?

[Sidders]

I don't know, DRLOZ was in the chatroom earlier saying he had a tear in his eye. For Christ's sake, get a life. It was only an aeroplane.

[kendra k]

you like aeroplanes...

i just saw something on vh1 about supermodels riding the concorde on versace's dime.

[David]

yes, for some it may of been a sad occasion, but really, it was a bit over the top.

Did anyone see the BBC News today at one? They had live link ups with Heathrow, a guy in New York... I mean, all that and it was the top story.

But maybe thats me. Although I can liken it to the day the ferries left Shetland to be replaced by new ones, it was like the end of an era for Shetland and the ferries (it's like a lifeline up here, we need em.) To most people it sounds stupid, but to someone who used them about 3 times a year, the hairs were up on the back of my neck as I watched them leave (plus it was bloody freezing).

[Sidders]

Did anyone see the BBC News today at one? They had live link ups with Heathrow, a guy in New York... I mean, all that and it was the top story.

It was the same at 10. It's only a bloody plane. And a plane that was an economic disaster at that.

[David]

maybe its a slow news day.

[Adam]

Did anyone see the BBC News today at one? They had live link ups with Heathrow, a guy in New York... I mean, all that and it was the top story.

It was the same at 10. It's only a bloody plane. And a plane that was an economic disaster at that.

Not really.

Was a disaster at one point.

[Sidders]

What do you mean 'not really'? It was £8000 for a * return!!! Is that what you call a success??

[Chris]

It was profitable for most of it's life prior to the crash and the attack on the world trade centre buildings. It was also very useful. And comfortable. And fast. And loud.