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5 hours ago, jaapv said:

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The miniaturised instrumentation left an impression with me. Further, it looked like every part on the interior of the aircraft had been uniquely customised, shrunk and lightened; the design cost must have been staggering.

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The initial development estimate for Concorde was $130 million. However, this was vastly exceeded by the final cost reaching over $2.8 billion. In the 1960/70-ies, mind you. Today, it would have been $23.5 billion... Each of the British and French governments funded $1.44 billion. These costs were mostly written off and never recovered. Only twenty of the estimated 350 aircraft were ever built. 

I had seen this aircraft before, I happened to be transiting at Heathrow when it took off for one of its final commercial flights in October 2003.  There is one other personal connection: Patricia's father and uncle were on the design team of its Olympus engines. 

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4 hours ago, jaapv said:

Patricia's father and uncle were on the design team of its Olympus engines.

That would be these...nice job!

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