Boro_Boro_Boro
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RR Olympus engines X 4... the same set of engines were used in the Vulcan and we also used in the T42 Royal Navy Destroyers. Very thirsty engines and also complex to maintain.
.Who was taking selfies before 2003??? Surely that wasn't a thing.
I wasn't super rich but my company thought it worth while to put me on it. It was near full on most flights and made BA a lot of money for over 20 years. The Paris accident got people commuting in different ways and the numbers never recovered after that.I've never really understood the 'cost' reason. Obviously, it is the reason, but why didn't demand grow such that supply increased and costs were able to be reduced?
Like why aren't we all nipping to New York and Hong Kong for the weekend on one of many concorde planes? Why weren't all the design flaws rectified and improved upon? Its about the only example of a technological progression not being lapped up the public I can think of.
Is it simply that it was only ever accessible to the 'super-rich' and the 'super-rich' demographic just wasn't big enough to saturate the market?
The thing about Concorde is that if it flew at the same speed as a 747, you would probably still save 2 hours off your trip just by dint of it being a premium service: no queue to check in; everyone boarded in half a minute; no waiting for a take-off slot; no circling around London in the 'stack'; no time to wait at the luggage carousel etc. Hence it faced stiff competition from private hire jets.