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В википедии интересная статья про Конкорд. Просторные ли были места, куда клали ручную кладь, что происходило в момент преодоления звукового барьера, как все пассажиры весили на 1.6% меньше, чем на земле, и почему солнце всходило на западе.

Приводятся интересные сведения по экономике и обществоведению:

- After doing a market survey and discovering that their target customers thought that Concorde was more expensive than it actually was, British Airways progressively raised prices to match these perceptions.

- It has been suggested that Concorde was not cancelled for the reasons usually given, and that the airlines discovered during the [post crash] grounding that Concorde's first class passengers were loyal to the airlines and carrying them on subsonic aircraft gave greater revenue.

Ну и, разумеется, the plane's costly development phase represented a substantial economic loss for the French and British governments, although it made large operating profits for British Airways for much of its service life. Поэтому, it is a symbol of great national pride to many in Britain and France; in France it was thought of as a French aircraft, in Britain as British. As a symbol of national pride, a plane from the British Airways fleet made occasional flypasts at selected Royal events, major airshows and other special occasions.