Someone linked to this forum thread on another HN post: http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.html
It's incredible interesting and various pilots and engineers turn up to share their stories.
It's incredible interesting and various pilots and engineers turn up to share their stories.
Warning: Grab a LARGE cup of coffee and bag of popcorn and be prepared to lose many hours reading through that (massive) 99 page thread.
There are two editions of the book. The first edition is super cheap (eg. 29p + postage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Concorde-New-Shape-Sky-Ken-Ow...). There was a second edition written after the 2000 accident in France, which is supposed to be a better version, but I have not read it because it's out of print and considerably more expensive.
Two things I remember: the statement that by the end of the engineering effort "everyone was exhausted and nobody was really in control" (paraphrasing slightly from memory)
and a curious interview with a (British) engineer who was very concerned about keeping technologies proprietary at the national level--he seemed to be happy for UK firms to share know-how (as I believe is traditional, up to a point, in engineering culture) but god forbid it should be shared with another country's engineers. Shades of the Brexit mentality.