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Offline Chairboy

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« on: December 28, 2007, 03:26:25 PM »
From the AOPA boards, here's a selection of ATC excerpts from the last Concorde takeoff in the US:

http://fly.blakecrosby.com/blog/files/speedbird2.mp3

Pretty cool, wish I had been there.
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« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2007, 06:37:56 PM »
I had the privelige of standing a few hundred feet away from the runway, during the last Concord take-off out of Sydney Australia.

It was a memorable experience....it was a wet day, a jet of steam came out the back of the jet like a dragon. It was noisy, but not like an F-15 at full afterburner.
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« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2007, 06:55:54 PM »
Nice post ~ I enjoyed listening to that ~ thanks
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« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2007, 09:44:40 PM »
That was cool.  Thanks.
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« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2007, 11:23:20 PM »
Thx for posting that.  A nice feel-good story.
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« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2007, 11:32:29 PM »
It's too bad that America's premier commercial aircraft company could not come up with a worthy opponent. I guess the French win this one, and that's just sad.
Maybe if they weren't so focused on driving the competetion out of business things would have been different.
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« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2007, 12:42:24 AM »
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I guess the French win this one


It was called "Concorde" for a reason.
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« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2007, 12:50:09 AM »
Why wasn't Boeing's retort called the Surrender for the same reason?
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« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2007, 01:10:29 AM »
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It's too bad that America's premier commercial aircraft company could not come up with a worthy opponent. I guess the French win this one, and that's just sad.
Maybe if they weren't so focused on driving the competetion out of business things would have been different.

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde

Aérospatiale is French

BAC is British
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« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2007, 03:39:02 AM »
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It was a memorable experience....it was a wet day, a jet of steam came out the back of the jet like a dragon. It was noisy, but not like an F-15 at full afterburner.


Too bad F15 noise is only a memory now.  She'll be retired now, as well.
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« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2007, 03:48:31 AM »
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Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde

Aérospatiale is French

BAC is British
Boeing is US
Lockheed-Martin is US
Bell is US
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« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2007, 05:49:22 AM »
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I guess the French win this one

Yes rpm, be sure the French and the British put it to the Americans. :p
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« Reply #12 on: December 29, 2007, 08:02:38 AM »
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It's too bad that America's premier commercial aircraft company could not come up with a worthy opponent. I guess the French win this one, and that's just sad.
Maybe if they weren't so focused on driving the competetion out of business things would have been different.
We (Boeing, Lockheed) had a worthy opponent, but the program was killed.  There was this movement against air pollution in the 70's and the FAA put noise restrictions on every US airport.  Kind of hard to sell a supersonic airplane that isn't allowed to fly supersonic over the US let alone the lack of customers willing to buy one. Perhaps if we just did it for national pride....:lol
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« Reply #13 on: December 29, 2007, 12:37:01 PM »
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We (Boeing, Lockheed) had a worthy opponent, but the program was killed.  There was this movement against air pollution in the 70's and the FAA put noise restrictions on every US airport.  Kind of hard to sell a supersonic airplane that isn't allowed to fly supersonic over the US let alone the lack of customers willing to buy one. Perhaps if we just did it for national pride....:lol


Rip, face it: you had two competitors in the market and it was already too late for Americans ;)

I wonder if Tu-144 was supposed to be sold for export, if it could get decent engines. Maybe it could be saved by buying foreign engines, like P&W.
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« Reply #14 on: December 29, 2007, 11:16:54 PM »
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Rip, face it: you had two competitors in the market and it was already too late for Americans ;)

I wonder if Tu-144 was supposed to be sold for export, if it could get decent engines. Maybe it could be saved by buying foreign engines, like P&W.


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We (Boeing, Lockheed) had a worthy opponent, but the program was killed. There was this movement against air pollution in the 70's and the FAA put noise restrictions on every US airport. Kind of hard to sell a supersonic airplane that isn't allowed to fly supersonic over the US let alone the lack of customers willing to buy one. Perhaps if we just did it for national pride....


You fellas' talking about it makes me wonder also, if fuel economy wasn't part of it. Flying Supersonic doesn't exactly put a turbine into "fuel miser" mode. How much would fares have to be to make up for it?
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