Blake Scholl 🛫#182
Need to bring back the age of supersonic airliners. The world once had the European Concorde, the Russian TU-144, and some Boeing and Lockheed prototypes.
Users are excited to revive supersonic airliners like Concorde as long-overdue progress that should soon be allowed, though others note these flights would stay too expensive for anyone but the rich.
Super sonic transports are such an interesting case because they were enabled by relatively cheap fuel and rising global affluence, hobbled (and finally killed) by rising fuel prices and recession first in the 70s and again after 9/11. Just when fuel got cheaper and global affluence began to rise again in the 2010s, climate change concerns and the modern environmental movement provided a non-physical, but entirely insurmountable barrier. Just historically a cursed category of aircraft.
@NorbertMll67541 Exactly. We had the future on the drawing board and walked away.
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@erikfinman Yes
@3BodyProblem We had the future, and politics killed it.
@erikfinman He's trying https://youtu.be/yiFQJv_pXhw?si=eG4QGwAFfHF8t6zS
@erikfinman No https://share.google/pipEEEMBpOptJyFKR
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@3BodyProblem The worst part is we already had it.
@3BodyProblem That crash was horrific. It still shouldn't have buried the future.
@erikfinman Its on its way back, and we love that🙂. Boeing is making test flights with the smaller XB-1 right now in order to build a bigger commercial version in a couple of years. Many airlines have made pre orders already.
@erikfinman 😢
@erikfinman In 2001, when I was living in New York, I was quoted £8800 for a 1 way flight to London (a first class return on a 747 was £5000)
Prices would never drop enough for the common man, no matter how profligate
Ergo, these were playthings for the rich
@erikfinman Air-France-Flug 4590 was bad
@Gorty674623 Concorde was Anglo-French. Every new transport technology starts expensive, then scales.
@Gorty674623 That was Concorde's airline economics, not a law of physics.
@erikfinman Why do we need supersonic airliners? They would ONLY be for the ultra-rich...
By European you obviously mean British
@thevoiceof29094 The point is not reviving 1960s engines. It is refusing to let aviation peak there.
@Finch__Hatton Exactly. The tech existed. Politics and economics killed the future.
@Bellend_Bob Blake gets it. Now legalize supersonic over America.
Blake Scholl 🛫#182Need to bring back the age of supersonic airliners. The world once had the European Concorde, the Russian TU-144, and some Boeing and Lockheed prototypes.