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From: jd3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jean-Marc Debaud)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Re:Re:Number of Concorde ever build
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Date: 22 Jan 89 22:46:16 GMT
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>>The delay in securing the landing permission wasn't justified by any reason...
>>American manufacturers had lobbied very hard to
>>get that plane conmercially killed. They succeded !

>The delay was from court battles over the noise issue.

 True. But it wasn't really a problem. Does the Europeans have more
capacities to handle high level of noise ? No.

>Suppose you tell us
>what US manufacturers did to kill it.  I think what killed it were high
>fuel consumption and limited range.

The same way automakers killed the passenger railroad industries. (Through
lobbying in congress to get laws favoring them even indirectly.)

Autonomie is not an issues I beleive. Concorde has a range long enough to
cover 10000 Km. in one shot.

Jean-Marc Debaud
Carnegie-Mellon University
jd3l+@andrew.cmu.edu