There is a Kevin Bacon movie, "Where The Truth Lies" about a comedy duo in the 1950s and a murder. Anyways there is a dinner scene on a plane. They turn a row of seats and pull up a table and serve dinner like at a restaurant. Flying used to be luxury and not an air taxi.
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.
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.
There is a Kevin Bacon movie, "Where The Truth Lies" about a comedy duo in the 1950s and a murder. Anyways there is a dinner scene on a plane. They turn a row of seats and pull up a table and serve dinner like at a restaurant. Flying used to be luxury and not an air taxi.
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.
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.