@J Boyle;- Give us a break. The issue with Concorde wasn’t about blasting across the continental US at Mach 2. Ever. There were huge organised protests to stop Concorde even LANDING in the US. Were these protests only organised by environmentalists…? Doubtful. Nationalistic sour-grapes – sure – in the US. Bigtime.
Did the problems in the US contribute to other airlines cancellations…? Probably.
Had more Concordes been produced, it would inevitably have been more economic for the manufactures – simple economics. As for the airlines – they charged a lot of money for the tickets and had no shortage of customers. By the time the service ended – the aircraft were old – and in the current climate – uneconomic to replace.
Isn’t it funny that today, there are designs for SST’s – all smaller to make them more ‘economical’…..
The SST never got beyond a wooden mock-up and wasn’t in the same league as Concorde.
It’ll be very interesting to see what the reaction is in the US if Skylon manages to go forward……
As for departures from this forum – what’s a ‘serious and senior member’…? Get real – this is the internet. No one on here has to ‘qualify’ – if they did, it’d be pretty quiet in here..! There are some great posters – and some complete numpties. All part of the landscape. It’s ALL fluff and none of it rally matters. When the screens go black – the real world carries on as before.