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Rod Speed wrote:


"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:01:30 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"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.

So yuo;re sayig n that the 100 sold

Another bare faced lie. Only 20 were ever produced,
6 were never operational and BOAC got theirs for free.

all travled the same route,

Yes they did.

Only in so far as the routes were transatlantic Both London & Paris were
termini


that must have been some demand for that service.

In fact just 6 each for BOAC and Air France due
to the stupidly high maintenance requirement.

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