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2006-05-07 Science & Technology

US, Japan to produce supersonic passenger plane

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Posted by lotp 2006-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 As I recall the concorde lost money from the first flight to the last flaming crash.
It was prestege, not good engineering.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-05-07 19:14|| 2006-05-07 19:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The Frenchies had to choose between the price-costly, fuel-inefficient/guzzling, traditionalist but fast-moving Concorde; or POTUS Dick Nixon's uglier, bulkier, but all-around better "Space Plane" designs one of which later became the basis for Le'Reusable Space Shuttle. America still has the Space Shuttle and are dev hyper-velocity or extar-orbital crafts to go to the Moon and Mars and beyond, while dubious moneymaker Concorde is now officially junked. America actually have to restrain its space efforts/ventures in order to give our Allies a chance to catch up.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-07 22:52|| 2006-05-07 22:52|| Front Page Top

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