Iconic Concorde Could Return for 2012 Olympics

If only they would resume flights to Dulles so I could get a shot of one flying… 🙁

The retired “Rolls Royce Of The Skies” – which held a record average cruise speed of Mach 2 – could be revived for “heritage flights” just in time for the 2012 Olympics in London.

A four-month trial related to the Air France Concorde crash that killed 100 passengers and 9 crew members in 2000 ended days ago and now – through a partnership between the British Save Concorde Group, SCG, and French group Olympus 593 – a British-French team is conducting tests at the Le Bourget Air and Space Museum in France to get four Rolls Royce engines running smoothly and the world’s first supersonic passenger jet back in the air.