Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Chairboy on December 28, 2007, 03:26:25 PM
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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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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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Nice post ~ I enjoyed listening to that ~ thanks
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That was cool. Thanks.
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Thx for posting that. A nice feel-good story.
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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.
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Originally posted by rpm
I guess the French win this one
It was called "Concorde" for a reason.
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Why wasn't Boeing's retort called the Surrender for the same reason?
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Originally posted by rpm
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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Originally posted by SouthLanda
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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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Originally posted by MiloMorai
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde
Aérospatiale is French
BAC is British
Boeing is US
Lockheed-Martin is US
Bell is US
:confused:
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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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Originally posted by rpm
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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Originally posted by Ripsnort
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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Originally posted by Boroda
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.
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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There's some new anti-boom technology out that should make cross-land supersonic travel feasible. It'll be interesting to see how that develops.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=g1wHbLWSvlo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Ko2VoKcZI
I have a video that was up on JFKTower.com but long since taken down. Will try to see if I can host it up.