[nuke_road_warrior]

They did, then the government cut funding. Boeing went ahead with the 747 and made a butt ton of money, Back when Boeing was a benchmark for quality aircraft. Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation developed the Concord (Concorde) which never made a dime.

[Red Badger]

Concorde should have been just a stepping stone to the next level. The disasters of the first early commercial jetliners, the de Havilland Comets, didn’t stop development................