Remembering Concorde

Jad Adams details its downfall, on the aircraft's 40th birthday:

Concorde remained in service for 27 years. It would not be a passenger aircraft frequently used by any but the rich, but many ordinary folk did travel on it as a once-in-a-lifetime luxury or as a competition prize. The technology was developed no further, however. By 2000 it could be seen that Concorde’s cockpit was filled with the analogue dials of the mid-20th century. It was as if its creators had become ashamed of Concorde and saw it as a flying museum piece, already part of the past, and would not spend any money to upgrade it.