Anyone seen it? It is highly engrossing!!!!

 

Such an ambitious project for its time.

Such an ambitious project for its time.

 

Yes, watch it in the historic time frame where the Soviets were in space first (October Sky) and the movie Apollo 13.....

It is amazing to see the Concorde.

Great video !

Shame there is no market for this plane anymore.

 

Wonder what the price of a plane ticket would have to be in order to make a new Concorde service viable.

Shame there is no market for this plane anymore.

 

Wonder what the price of a plane ticket would have to be in order to make a new Concorde service viable.

 

I would imagine with today's materials a replacement would be half the weight and twice the speed. We have learned a lot more since that project.

 

But the cost would more likely be ten times the cost of the Concorde program, and that one never really turned a profit.

 

They are coming up with new concepts but nothing has been done beyond computer models.

I actually got to fly on Concorde when it did a charter to Lubbock, TX. Me and my dad took the trip from Lubbock to New York then London.

I actually got to fly on Concorde when it did a charter to Lubbock, TX. Me and my dad took the trip from Lubbock to New York then London.

 

Nice.....

I would imagine with today's materials a replacement would be half the weight and twice the speed. We have learned a lot more since that project.

 

But the cost would more likely be ten times the cost of the Concorde program, and that one never really turned a profit.

 

They are coming up with new concepts but nothing has been done beyond computer models.

 

I don't recall what the ceiling is for the Concorde, but the ceiling would be the edge of space for the new designs.

 

Maybe a new type of powerplant would be groundbreaking. I read the US Air Force experimented with nuclear powered aircraft in the 50s or 60s? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion

 

Traditional rocketry requires an enormous amount of power to get to space.

Well today Continental have been cleared by a French court of appeal of criminal blame for the July 2000 crash. The news report says:

 

The US airline had consistently argued that the Concorde caught fire before it hit the metal strip, and that they were being used as a scapegoat to protect France's airline industry.

 

So what do Continental know that we don't? Where is their incontrovertible evidence that it was on fire before it hit the strip?

Shame there is no market for this plane anymore.

 

Wonder what the price of a plane ticket would have to be in order to make a new Concorde service viable.

 

Well to put it into perspective it costs more to travel to the next stop on the London Underground than the equivalent distance on Concorde!!

So what do Continental know that we don't? Where is their incontrovertible evidence that it was on fire before it hit the strip?

 

Their evidence (or the prosecution's lack of evidence) was enough to convince the court that the criminal conviction was invalid... the civil penalty (1M Euros) and civil responsibilty were upheld and the Air France vs Continental proceedings continue.

 

DJ

Interesting. So their belief about it being on fire already is just a bit of corporate arse covering.

I don't know that there is any "incontrovertible evidence" that Concorde was on fire before it hit the FOD on the runway, but a number of eyewitnesses to the accident testified that they saw it on fire before it reached the point on the runway where it's believed it hit the metal strip. The fact that at least one of those witnesses was a commercial pilot could have created enough reasonable doubt for the appeals court to dismiss the politically inconvenient criminal charges.

I just read in the other thread that the appeals court simply dropped the criminal charges, they did not release Continental from liability for the crash.