And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, July 1, 2016
A British Airways Concorde flying above the Irish Sea at Mach 2, as taken by a RAF Tornado. - 4th April, 1985.
Extreme high speed vehicles tend to look alike because of aerodynamics.
Cost was one factor, but the sonic boom at cruise was the real problem. The Concorde was restricted to supersonic flight over oceans and lightly populated areas. Boeing dropped their design because of the restrictions on flight paths. If people hadn't complained about sonic booms, we would be traveling in Mach 2 or 3 transports on long haul flights.
I really can't tell you why the SST programs were scrapped. It had something to do with a sonic footprint?
ReplyDeleteI recall it was cost. I'm not sure the French/English ever made money on theirs.
DeleteI have always wondered if the Concorde borrowed any design elements to the B 70.
ReplyDeleteLayout seems too similar to be coincidental.
=T.W.=
Extreme high speed vehicles tend to look alike because of aerodynamics.
ReplyDeleteCost was one factor, but the sonic boom at cruise was the real problem. The Concorde was restricted to supersonic flight over oceans and lightly populated areas. Boeing dropped their design because of the restrictions on flight paths. If people hadn't complained about sonic booms, we would be traveling in Mach 2 or 3 transports on long haul flights.
Dave