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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Archibald" data-source="post: 11057" data-attributes="member: 138">Yes! This happened various times... To say the things simply, they forget to talk about cancellation in the contract! I mean, the clause dealing with cancellation was forgotten... aso the program was "sanctuarised" (don't know if this is a correct word!) Cancellation was (of course!) possible, but this would have broken the "rules" defined in the contract. Consequences would have been awfull (financial penalties, trials,  industrial disaster and stuff like this). Even worse than the TSR-2 cancellation, simply because GB was not alone making concorde... and France at the time was ruled by De Gaulle. Be sure that repraisals would have been terrible). For example, when Wilson came to power in October 1964, he had to make drastic cuts. First move was to cancell Concorde (announced in early november) but one of his advisors tell him this was not possible. Guess what aircraft was sacrificed instead ?  :'( The TRS-2 ! Had the Concorde been cancelled in October 1964, maybe the TSR-2 could have survived... I think there was another atempt circa 1966 (not sure). France could have not kept on alone. The program was already a financial burden, and the "cour des comptes" (french GAO) was sceptic right from 1967...</blockquote>