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They did on most of the flight systems, but I believe I read somewhere that even on their retirement date, many of the aircraft still had tubes in the avionics
by cyberferret 10y ago
They did on most of the flight systems, but I believe I read somewhere that even on their retirement date, many of the aircraft still had tubes in the avionics bays.
A complete replacement programme was just too expensive, and what they had worked, so they stuck with it. Had Concorde been a profitable aircraft, then it might have been a different story...