Concorde BMC Mini, the miniskirt, the Jaguar E-Type, the London Tube map and the Supermarine Spitfire. The type was retired in 2003, three years after the crash of Air France Flight 4590, in which all passengers and crew were killed. The general downturn in the commercial aviation industry after the September 11 attacks in 2001 and the end of maintenance support for Concorde by Airbus (the successor company of both Aérospatiale and BAC) also contributed. The origins of the Concorde project date to the early 1950s, when Arnold Hall, director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) asked Morien Morgan to form
HMS Concorde (1783) in the Third Anglo-Mysore War. "Résolue" resisted and a brief action took place before the French surrendered. As Britain and France were not at war, "Résolue" was then restored to the French. HMS Concorde (1783) Concorde (originally "Le Concorde") was a 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. Built in Rochefort in 1777, she entered service with the French early in the American War of Independence, and was soon in action, capturing in the West Indies. She survived almost until the end of the war, but was captured by in 1783. Not immediately brought into service