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Old Oct 26, 2003 | 9:13 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Panic Stations:
Kept from ever achieving mass market success by it's overzealous controllers? There were over 300 options for Concordes when the aircraft went into production, with a predicted production run of 2000 aircraft. Hardle overzealous control. The fact that most carriers cancelled their options then the USA banned access to it's airpsace is harldy the manufacturers fault, is it?</font>
Thank you for adding some excellent facts and common sense to this thread, it needed it.
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