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Ah, night shift in the 1970s. Ciggies, hipflasks, ADVENT... and fault-prone disk drives the size of washing machines

Alan Brown Silver badge

"The Russians certainly gained access to a lot of Concorde's design details, but they missed some very important ones"

AIUI it was realised the Russians were snooping and were deliberately fed a couple of wrong design details to put them off the scent - particularly related to the downward curve of the leading edge - which is why the TU144 required those ears

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