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http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-12-08-a-concorde-of-...
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Thus ended what Jeremy Clarkson called “an extraordinary technological achievement”. Mourning the Concorde in 2003, he wrote: “It’s hard to think of examples where human beings had the technology to progress, but held back. Maybe AD410 when the Romans pulled out of Britain, but not since. It’s not in our nature to snuff out THE FIRE.”
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THE FIRE began in the frigid 1950s and 1960s, perhaps due to Cold War jingoism, when the United States, Soviet Russia, France and Britain were exploring the possibility of supersonic jet flights…
Успехов.