Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!hplabsb!dsmith From: dsmith@hplabsb.HP.COM (David Smith) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Number of Concorde ever build Summary: too hot under the collar Message-ID: <5133@hplabsb.HP.COM> Date: 31 Jan 89 23:38:02 GMT References: <8812270136.AA22740@crash.cts.com> <13081@cup.portal.com> Organization: Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto Lines: 54 In article , jd3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jean-Marc Debaud) writes: > *Just a less, uh, "developed" legal system. > So we are undercivilised ? Are we ? > Just typical of a certain attitude about foreign countries. I think you are too busy being a feisty Frenchman to recognize that as a jest. Throwing in "uh," and quoting "developed" was intended as a swipe at the litigious American legal atmosphere, not as a slur on the French. Please calm down and accept my apology for not having appended a smiley. > >>Suppose you tell us what US manufacturers did to kill it. > >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. > > Sorry I don't have the reference numbers... but, [general stuff about > intra-American highway-rail skullduggery] I expected you to give specifics on what laws were passed by the US Congress to thwart the Concorde. > 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. > > Thnaks to treat me as a liar. If the shoe fits... > Besides Honk-Kong is much farther than 10000Kmfrom Paris. 9640 km, according to The World Almanac. > Just Paris-JFK is 6500km apart and I know that for instance Pres. > F Mitterant visited Venezuela 2 years ago and flew straight from Paris. Neither of these proves your assertion of 10000 km range. As a matter of fact, Paris-JFK flights don't prove that the range exceeds the Paris-JFK distance, which is where the argument started. If Concorde carried "Pres. F Mitterant" (I presume you mean Mitterand) nonstop from Paris to Venezuela, it didn't have a full load of passengers. > If a Paris Brasilia or else wasn't done it might be because there weren't > enough pleople ready to pay the high price of a ticket. Actually, there was talk of service from Paris to Rio de Janiero -- with a refuelling stop in Dakar. -- David R. Smith, HP Labs dsmith@hplabs.hp.com (415) 857-7898