Plans to Build Concorde Nearly Scrapped

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Harold Wilson's Labour Government was on the brink of scrapping plans to build Concorde in 1974, believing the jet would be too expensive, according to newly released documents.

Mr Wilson told Jacques Chirac, then French prime minister, that his new Cabinet had been reconsidering the Anglo-French project, which it was estimated would cost pounds 1,070 million to develop and British Airways pounds 26 million a year.

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Plans to Build Concorde Nearly Scrapped

According to notes of a conversation between the two ...

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