Why did they forever ground the Concorde fleet of airplanes? I remember one plane had an accident in 2003 and after that the entire fleet was retired forever. They don’t do this with other plane models so why did they do it with Concorde? Was the fleet just too old? I seem to recall they debuted in the mid 1970s.
Anyone know? Anyone here ever flown the Concorde? Could a huge BB fit in this tiny cabin (bodybuilding related)?
Parts...there was never very many of them so that obtaining parts became a problem...The airframes probably became unsafe with small stress fractures accumulating, and with parts hard to get...
Why did they retire the original Queen Mary?...same reason...the drive and power system became problematic and it was less expensive to build the QE
2 than to replace the systems.
In a few years an aerospace company will design another SST...just as soon as it becomes a profitable venture.
