It greatly annoyed airlines and plane manufacturers that a lot of people would rather pay substantially more for a plane that drank more fuel and couldn't carry anywhere near as many passengers to get to a country twice as fast as any jumbo, so they tried to kill it for decades. But they never crashed. Never had any major reliability issues. So they had to keep flying them.
Then in 2000, the hostile takeover was launched. On July 10th, Aerospatiale would be acquired by Airbus, then 15 days later Flight 4590 happened, where a Concorde crashed on take off because of a piece that had fallen off another aircraft. Suddenly, it's an "unsafe" plane and it has its final flight 3 years later.
Afterwards, Airbus made sure they could never be flown again, by ending support for all parts relating to the plane and forbidding any airline from purchasing and flying those which were still airworthy, gutting what remained for museum purposes. 20+ years later, supersonic air travel is as much of a pipe dream as it was in the 1950s.
Concorde was uncomfortable to sit in, the seat pitch was about that of a 737. The only upside was the flights weren't super long.
Concorde was dangerous from the start. By 1980 enough catastrophic tire failures had been racked up that the FAA sent a "What The Fuck Are You Retards Doing?" letter.
Not really. It's a real world case of people deliberately burying superior technology. Once you believe that those running the world will bury inconvenient technologies, it's easy to wonder about other such things.
Heartbreaking really. The future we were promised 30ish years ago really could have come to pass - if not for a bunch of demented egomaniac pedophiles who would rather rule undisputed over a global third-world favela.
One word: Concorde.
It greatly annoyed airlines and plane manufacturers that a lot of people would rather pay substantially more for a plane that drank more fuel and couldn't carry anywhere near as many passengers to get to a country twice as fast as any jumbo, so they tried to kill it for decades. But they never crashed. Never had any major reliability issues. So they had to keep flying them.
Then in 2000, the hostile takeover was launched. On July 10th, Aerospatiale would be acquired by Airbus, then 15 days later Flight 4590 happened, where a Concorde crashed on take off because of a piece that had fallen off another aircraft. Suddenly, it's an "unsafe" plane and it has its final flight 3 years later.
Afterwards, Airbus made sure they could never be flown again, by ending support for all parts relating to the plane and forbidding any airline from purchasing and flying those which were still airworthy, gutting what remained for museum purposes. 20+ years later, supersonic air travel is as much of a pipe dream as it was in the 1950s.
Concorde was uncomfortable to sit in, the seat pitch was about that of a 737. The only upside was the flights weren't super long.
Concorde was dangerous from the start. By 1980 enough catastrophic tire failures had been racked up that the FAA sent a "What The Fuck Are You Retards Doing?" letter.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/15/us/faa-troubled-by-concorde-tire-blowouts.html
The Eurotards dragged their feet on addressing the vulnerabilities until the great aerial French barbecue in 2000.
Fuck Concorde and fuck the yurotards who worship it.
Me who has absolutely no idea what anyone is talking about: "Let them fight"
It's horribly sad...and infuriating. This is how you end up with "did aliens build the pyramids"
Not really. It's a real world case of people deliberately burying superior technology. Once you believe that those running the world will bury inconvenient technologies, it's easy to wonder about other such things.
Heartbreaking really. The future we were promised 30ish years ago really could have come to pass - if not for a bunch of demented egomaniac pedophiles who would rather rule undisputed over a global third-world favela.
It was also incredibly loud inside.
reminds me of the whole hindenburg thing i read on here once