The Concorde Manufacturing Consortium - An Exercise in International Engineering Collaboration

This account of the development of the Concorde and its eventual manufacture is highlighted by the cooperative efforts of two dissimilar countries, brought together by a singular vision and united by a determination to create a practicable design of a mass-transport aircraft. The innumerable problems encountered cannot be completely covered in this capsule history, but the overall review given here presents a new approach toward solving the economic troubles of the air transportation industry, which may possibly be affected by impractical competitive practices.