In message , Michael A.
Terrell writes

tony sayer wrote:

There was also a big outcry at the time about the
pollution--apparently
folks were worried about damage to the ozone layer or
something, due to
inefficient engines spewing crap in the stratosphere. I'm not sure
whether there was anything to that (there so often isn't, in the
environmentalist cosmos), but that and the sonic booms were what got
supersonic flight banned.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs


Just more symptoms on Not Invented Here syndrome.


Yawn. US SS military jets were banned from populated areas long
before the first Concord was pieced together from British and french
landfills.

Yawn ... zzzzzz Frank Writtle was 'working on them long before that...


So, where are his flying, today?

Well thats like saying where are Stevenson's locomotives working today
then;?.

Rather pointless...


Yes, you are. Yet you keep trolling.

Do you even know who Sir Frank Whittle was ?

(without sneaking off and looking it up in google, of course)

--
geoff