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From: ethan@ut-emx.UUCP (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Number of Concorde ever built
Summary: local initiative
Message-ID: <10124@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 89 19:35:20 GMT
References: [deleted] <625@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <625@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>, me85mda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (M D Ayton) writes:
> >>The delay was from court battles over the noise issue.
> 
> Right, I've just about had enough of this.
> 
> Concorde was banned from American airports ONLY while it was still being
> built and on the SPURIOUS gruonds of noise.

The grounds may have been spurious, although the Concorde is somewhat noisier
than most other aircraft.  At the time there was a big push, which has since
collapsed, to force some noise reduction around airports.  Concorde may
have been an unfair victim of this.  However.....

It is my distinct impression that the opposition was from community groups
around the airport.  In America local governments have a great deal
of autonomy on such issues.  It is not always easy for the federal
government to force them to change their minds, even if it is inclined to
do so.

As to who inspired the local opposition, unless my memory fails me it
was not the American aircraft manufacturers, but the same coalition of
environmental groups that had originally succeeded in killing funding for 
the American SST.
-- 
 I'm not afraid of dying     Ethan Vishniac, Dept of Astronomy, Univ. of Texas
 I just don't want to be     {charm,ut-sally,ut-emx,noao}!utastro!ethan
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These must be my opinions.  Who else would bother?