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Originally Posted by Charles
I must admit, that is most impressive.
But don't sell America short, we've been working on our own mode of hyper-speed travel.
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Originally Posted by Charles
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Fair point Chas. But there's a residual sense of resentment here about Concord. You guys, having spent as much if not more on designing your own passenger SST (Boeing?) but not getting it off the drawing board fought tooth and nail to prevent Concord landing in New York. This was to have been the main revenue stream; pretty well what the plane was designed for.
I read somewhere that NASA considered Concord as more of a challenge than the Apollo program. What they said was that getting it to work wasn't the hurdle, what amazed them was that it could fly at the speed it did without overhaul between each flight.
There's a persistent story here that one might be got back in the air to take part in the flyover at the start of the London Olympic Games. Impossible? Maybe not. The French have made an engine test on one that's been mothballed, so just maybe if we stop pissing them off they might lend it to us
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That's an interesting attachment I've inserted. As I did it by accident I've no idea what I did.
