Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hplabsb!dsmith From: dsmith@hplabsb.HP.COM (David Smith) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Re:Re:Number of Concorde ever build Message-ID: <5126@hplabsb.HP.COM> Date: 26 Jan 89 20:31:28 GMT References: <8812270136.AA22740@crash.cts.com> <13081@cup.portal.com> <4595@mtgzy.att.com> <209@s5.Morgan.COM> <8XpBody00XomQ0fFNY@andrew.cmu.edu> <5120@hplabsb.HP.COM> <0XqZasy00VA9QRp10p@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 26 In article <0XqZasy00VA9QRp10p@andrew.cmu.edu> jd3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jean-Marc Debaud) writes: >>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. Just a less, uh, "developed" legal system. >>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.) What kind of laws? More specifics, please. >Autonomie is not an issues I beleive. Concorde has a range long enough to >cover 10000 Km. in one shot. Baloney. If it did, we would be seeng Concorde nonstop routes from Paris (or London) to Hong Kong, Capetown, Mexico City, Rio de Janiero, and Tokyo. -- David R. Smith, HP Labs dsmith@hplabs.hp.com (415) 857-7898