Bye Bye Discovery

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I know you’re just using me to get to 45,000 :hinna:

Haha I so would not but since you’ve mentioned aerodynamics…

[Faris_Udeen]

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Did somebody mention bombs…

Aeordynamis is one thing but bombs is a no no… unless thier birdie bombs. Those are hillarious when they hit someone else but terrible when they hit you…

[TLK]

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@goddamniamsoawesome

I have a poster of that scene Amazing indeed!

The Europeans did do it first. They launched the first supersonic commercial aircraft. You can rant all you want about safety concerns and what not, that didn’t matter, the Concorde’s safety record was better then other aircraft used. The reason the Concorde failed was the freakin’ hippies, economics and well people being idiots about this marvel of engineering. I might be a wee bit more qualified in this aspect

Americans did not kill the Concorde. Concorde was a not a profitable aircraft and it killed itself. from 1976 to 2003, they were able to sold only 20 aircrafts and that also only to BA and Air France because British and French govts offered subsided the cost for those two airlines to buy that aircraft. And it was not even a safe aircraft. Out of those 20, 1 crashed. That is a huge failure in airline safety.

BTW, at the same time, Boeing was also developing her own SST called Boeing 2707 that they ended up dropping and went ahead with 747 instead.

@Khumar

riiiiiiiiiiiiiight

dude blame that on TLK…he killed 23 of my posts with a “whoosh”. gots to get my 45K mark back. hence the random postings.

That was a glitch

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@TLK

Americans did not kill the Concorde. Concorde was a not a profitable aircraft and it killed itself. from 1976 to 2003, they were able to sold only 20 aircrafts and that also only to BA and Air France because British and French govts offered subsided the cost for those two airlines to buy that aircraft. And it was not even a safe aircraft. Out of those 20, 1 crashed. That is a huge failure in airline safety.

BTW, at the same time, Boeing was also developing her own SST called Boeing 2707 that they ended up dropping and went ahead with 747 instead.

I wasn’t actually blaming the Americans for the Concorde’s failure. It was economics plus noise regulations and hippies. Aye, I know about the Concorde fleet and the business behind it. It was a marvel of engineering, just couldn’t translate that to the ****ty world we live in

Although if you do want to take my statement seriously, the accident was caused by an illegally installed strip that came off from a Continental DC10 so there you go, the Americans killed the Concorde

Studied the SST. It never made it though so :hinna:

[TLK]

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@goddamniamsoawesome

I wasn’t actually blaming the Americans for the Concorde’s failure. It was economics plus noise regulations and hippies. Aye, I know about the Concorde fleet and the business behind it. It was a marvel of engineering, just couldn’t translate that to the ****ty world we live in

Although if you do want to take my statement seriously, the accident was caused by an illegally installed strip that came off from a Continental DC10 so there you go, the Americans killed the Concorde

Studied the SST. It never made it though so :hinna:

If an airline can install an unauthorized part in their aircraft, that just shows the nonseriousness of their certification process.

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@TLK

If an airline can install an unauthorized part in their aircraft, that just shows the nonseriousness of their certification process.

The strip was illegally installed on an American aircraft by an American airline and certified safe to fly by the FAA which is American too!

[rizla86]

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@TLK

Americans did not kill the Concorde. Concorde was a not a profitable aircraft and it killed itself. from 1976 to 2003, they were able to sold only 20 aircrafts and that also only to BA and Air France because British and French govts offered subsided the cost for those two airlines to buy that aircraft. And it was not even a safe aircraft. Out of those 20, 1 crashed. That is a huge failure in airline safety.

We know it wasn't profitable but as GDISA said, it was a marvel of engineering and it deserved to go on. 1 out of 20 crashed but that should not the affect the safety rate since it wasn't an inherent fault that caused the crash.

[TLK]

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@goddamniamsoawesome

The strip was illegally installed on an American aircraft by an American airline and certified safe to fly by the FAA which is American too!

let me read the history and come back and answer that

@rizla86

We know it wasn’t profitable but as GDISA said, it was a marvel of engineering and it deserved to go on. 1 out of 20 crashed but that should not the affect the safety rate since it wasn’t an inherent fault that caused the crash.

It was an engineering marvel, no doubt, but it was just not profitable. As I said that only 2 airlines bought the planes that also after getting a break by their respective govt. SST is a unique market segment and that segment has no place in this economy.

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@TLK

let me read the history and come back and answer that

@TLK

It was an engineering marvel, no doubt, but it was just not profitable. As I said that only 2 airlines bought the planes that also after getting a break by their respective govt. SST is a unique market segment and that segment has no place in this economy.

Well the catch there is that they did turn it around for a while but had trouble getting landing rights at airports because of the noise at subsonic speeds, even. So yeah a bit of a double whammy. I agree though, the economics of operating it were the most obvious reason.