Concorde To Fly Again?

The most beautiful aircraft I have seen flying was the Concorde. I saw it briefly when it made a world tour and will never forget the pure grace and rightness in flight.
There is a possibility that the Concorde will fly again. I hope so. The plan is to have the Concorde flying for the British Olympics opening ceremony in 1912.
The Concord that will hopefully be flying again is the Concorde at the Le Bourget Musée Air + Space.
The inside of one of its engines has been inspected using boroscopic testing and found to be in perfect condition. This is the first of many tests that will be made before the engines are ground tested. There is a lot of work to be done but hopefully the Concord will be airworthy again in time to be part of the British Olympics Opening ceremony.
It is ironic that it will be a French Concord at the opening ceremony because British Airways have refused to support the campaign to save the Concorde. BA at this stage are just not interested, but the Save Concorde Group remain hopeful that BA will become interested once real progress is made on ‘Sierra Delta’ (the French Concorde at Bourget) by the French group Olympus 593. It is the French group that has made the inspections carried out so far and the British Save Concorde Group have been supporting them as much as possible with  

being actively involved.
Will Concorde fly supersonically again? Possibly not. But as part of aviation heritage it deserves to fly again. Maybe in a few years it might be seen at Oshkosh.
The thing that killed the Concorde commercially was not the cost but the sonic boom. There was natural reluctance by people along the Concorde flight path to having Concorde flying supersonically. So Concord was restricted to sub-sonic flight over populated areas. For passengers it became ‘why pay heaps to fly subsonic in Concorde’? A 747 would get you there almost as quick at a fraction of the cost.
But now there are several aircraft companies with plans for QSST’s (Quiet Super Sonic Transports), and quiet Supersonic Biz-Jets.
Aerion have a craft they claim can cruise at Mach 1.1 without a sonic boom. This seems to be a slight of hand because they claim elsewhere a cruise of Mach 1.6. Does this mean that there 'boomless' supersonic business Jet is boomless only to Mach 1.1?
Aerion has embarked on a "Proof-of-Concept" design phase with planned certification  in 2015. Aerion are said to be looking for a manufacturing partner.
The Lockheed SkunkWorks in conjunction with Gulfstream  have been working on the Supersonic Aerospace International (SAI) design.
AS1 was founded by Michael Paulson in accordance with his late father’s  (Allen E. Paulson) will. Lockheed-Martin completed a feasibility design study for the 'low boom' supersonic passenger aircraft. The study was completed in 2004 with the design of the QSST.
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