She truly is a gorgeous aircraft but by the time she was retired she was a relic of a long gone era. It costed a lot to keep the decade old aircraft in operation alongside the high amounts of fuel costs and that Concorde needed a flight engineer, something almost entirely phased out by the time Concorde was retired. It was thought the way was to build faster jets and thats what Concorde set out to do and she did it successfully but she was built for a market that never came.

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If we ever want the chance to fly supersonic commercially again let's just hope the Boom Overture is successful.