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"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 8 January 2019 13:42:40 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
Maybe you can tell us why america or any other country hasn't also
developed a passenger jet to replace concorde since then.

Why would anyone want a replacement for something that ran at a loss?


To make it profitable.
Russia tried and the USA tried.


And finally realised the concept was flawed.


The concept wasn't flawed


Corse it was when it could only fly supersonic over water.

it worked as a passenger airliner for 27 years.


On just the one route for most of that time.