'I said Concorde would be an expensive mistake. I was right'

Amid all the excitement of Concorde in the mid-70s, one woman said the whole thing - while impressive technologically - was a costly error. Now Mary Goldring says she has been proved right.

Next Friday Concorde will makes its last commercial flight, as British Airways takes the feat of engineering out of service.

Hear Mary Goldring's argument about Concorde

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Less than 30 years after making its debut for paying passengers, the distinctive white plane which was the world's only supersonic airliner is to become a historical relic.

Despite the triumph of technology for Britain and France which the plane represented, not everyone was its friend.

Mary Goldring was aviation correspondent for the Economist newspaper in the 1960s when Concorde was being developed. She became a steadfast opponent of the project, an often lone sceptical voice.

Now as the plane prepares for a new life in the museum, Goldring says her scepticism has been proved right.