Concorde....

Jack's comments sound like sour grapes to me, because
Concord (English spelling) wasn't American! I seem
to remember that Boeing tried and failed to develop
a slightly bigger mach 2.5 swing-wing SST.

I am sure that Virgin Atlantic could have made a commercial
success of Concord, had they been allowed to do so.
It was quite succesful anyway until the Paris crash.
Maybe the British and French governments didn't want
their national flag carriers to be shown up by a true
private sector company.

Derek Copeland (UK)

At 03:54 11 June 2006, Jack wrote:

Yes, check his email address, Graeme -- it doesn't
exist. Another P. T.
Barnum sucker-punch, as phony as 'Kenney's' daydreams
of the Concorde,
that blot on commercial aviation which served mostly
to waste fuel, tax
money, the environment, and lives in a search for yet
another Jingoistic
Corporate ego massage.

The dozens of airlines who optioned and then refused
Concorde, leaving
the Governments of Britain and France deservedly holding
the bag, are
powerful evidence that the 'bean-counters' were right,
as were the
directors who actually made the [non]investment decisions.


Jack

Derek Copeland wrote:

Jack's comments sound like sour grapes to me, because
Concord (English spelling) wasn't American! I seem
to remember that Boeing tried and failed to develop
a slightly bigger mach 2.5 swing-wing SST.

Why doubt that Boeing would have developed a fine SST if the money was
available? The money would have been available if it was deemed to be
commercially viable.

Sour grapes were de Gaulle's specialite, I believe.


Jack