Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!oliveb!sun!concertina!fiddler From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Number of Concorde ever build Message-ID: <87596@sun.uucp> Date: 31 Jan 89 02:15:23 GMT References: <8812270136.AA22740@crash.cts.com> <13081@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 27 In article , 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. > > So we are undercivilised ? Are we ? > Do you really believe that if the plane makes a lot of noise to > the point that it is untolerable, just because we are underdevelop > we can't have it stoped ? > > Just typical of a certain attitude about foreign countries. > But just wait a while. If you can see what I mean... Calm down a bit, Jean-Marc. Note the quotes around 'developed' in the other writers' comment. If you hung around the US (or most any American) that would have been a tip-off that he was referring to the somewhat...um...enthusiastic lawyers dealing in product liability suits. Which has led to horrendously-expensive small aircraft, or *no* production of such aircraft, or no import of the very nice european private aircraft into the US. (SOCATA, for example, abandoned plans to sell their single-engined aircraft in the US mostly on the high cost of product liability. Too bad, the Tobago and Trinidad look like nice birds.)