Oh,.. 'Now' I understand the new policy,..
The Bigger the plane, the Bigger we can wright our name down the side of it,.. ;) :D
After all, when your travaling at M:2 i don't supose it's easy to read whos plane it is,....
Easy on the concorde bashing,...
Did u know that America was building one also, and was planed to be 'faster' than concorde.
but after haveing spent just as much as britan and france, all they had was a wooden scale model..
but if america 'HAD' built it's own super sonic passenger fleet, then it would be praised... but becuase America failed to do so, all that was left for people to say is,.. "Oh!, stupid idea"...
But if that realy was the case, and realy 'WAS' a stupid idea, why then did america bother trying to build one of her own in the first place?
Concorde was the future,..
Because if you can't succeed with a super sonic passenge jet,
Then How in the world will the 'Next grate idea witch is "Sub-orbitel flight" , ever stand a chance of becoming a reality.
Concorde was around for a good many years,...
but the 'TWO' main reasons for it's retirement to the history books, is
ONE: 9/11,.., a lot of the people who were on them planes and also in the twin towers were concordes 'Life-Blood',..
And thoughts few rich busness people were either flying on concorde them selfs, and when they wern't, they were paying for others in their company and their friends and family to fly on them also,...
Concorde was for rich busness men, and so called 'rich-kids', and also 'once-in-a-lifetime' users who had saved and saved for there never again experence.
But all theres things start out that way,.. being something for thefew and 'privalidged'...
just like the car was, and the T.V, and it's surly the everything else.
The 'jumbo jet' was origonaly supose to be 'Spacos' and have all the bells and whisesle that ritcherd branston now wants on his proposed new plane's,... But the jumbo was soon filled out with lots and lots of sheat to be geared towards more passanger numbers and grater 'profit'...
so this plan for new 'bigger' plain's is only a re invention of the 'Last big plain'.
and the SECONED reson why concored was decomisiond:
ritchered branston wanted to buy the concorde fleet of BA(British Airways) but they said 'NO'.... ans why did they say NO,...
because there is BAD BLOOD between them,... richerd branston snitced on BA for doing something witch i don't actualy know what it was, but basicly BA got ended up getting there hand slaped for it, and ever since BA and VIRGIN have not realy been 'Friend's'...
just like when they didn't alow Ritcherd Branston to take over the LOTTERY,.. Simply because someone at the top didn't like him, even though he was going to turn the LOTERY in to a 'no-profit' making organisation,...
me thinks the 'NON-PROFIT' part was the reason.
And Me 'also' thinks that it meant 'somebody-somewhere' wasn't going to get there share of the procedings if Ritchered Branston took it over.
Uh, that is a long rant, only to have so much wrong in it.
I'll only correct a few things.
The US did not spend anywhere near what was spent on Concorde development. The US's wooden mock up was all that was needed for Boeing to understand that no supersonic transport would be profitable within US airspace, and that Boeing would not sell enough units to justify building the aircraft for international travel alone. Boeing was proved correct through the dismal sales figures and profits earned from Concorde.
The Boeing SST was a 4-engine blended-delta wing designed for Mach 2.5 or better. No engines at that time were available that would have provided the combined thrust and fuel efficiency to allow for an acceptable operating cost.
Boeing did NOT fail to build the jet, it correctly decided not to. It was not going to be legal to generate a shock-wave over populated areas, not going to be cheap, not going to be profitable, so NOT going to be produced. All this information was available to Concorde, but it was ignored because they knew they would get government to fill in where profits were missing.
If you really believe the US lacks expertise in this area, ask yourself what Europe was building while the XB-70 and YF-12A were making holes in your airspace in the 60s.