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how come no company has made another supersonic passenger plane like the concorde?
Simple ( yes and not of course nothing is simple ) Concorde was built in a time were fuel was "cheap" and also Us were a little upset that small France and UK made such an aircraft before them ; so firstly lobbying killed the aircraft and then came 1973 ... First petroleum crisis that encourage companies to take much passenger in one flyght and buy bigger aircraft instead of the faster one. This aircraft was simply not bankable by that timehow come no company has made another supersonic passenger plane like the concorde?
The Russians also made a SST, but crashed it demostrating it at the Paris air show.
The operational cost of a SST is so high that no one can operate it at a profit.
Sorry SHARJBITEATTACK, you are wrong. Let me explain.
Don't take wrong what is following maybe it is my French Patriotism speaking
Firstly the TUPOLEV (not Tupolov) Tu-144 was introduced only a few month before Concorde, but it is now prooved that the "Sud Aviation" factories were spyed by the Russians and technical drawing of the Concorde were found into soviet hands...so maybe it flew earlier but soviet Union got power to accelerate construction programs by that time.
Regarding the reasons of the crash, I invite you to read the official BEA ( French NTSB ) report on the subject. It did not says " a piece of of tire on the runway got stucked into an engine" this is Wrong ! deeply wrong sorry.
Here is the link : BEA - Concorde
This is public you can download to read.
What happened : DC10 from continental airlines was poorly repaired on Engine N°3 (without following constructor's informations ) the part fall of from the DC10 during take off at CDG airport ; while the Concorde was taking off just after the DC10 the parts came to cut the main right landing gear tire. A part from this tire deeply impact the wing and created an "hydraulic pressure/reaction" into the fuel tank. That hydraulic reaction caused the fuel tank to open itself from the interior ( metal sheets fall off on the runway ) and fuel started to leak into the right engines, causing the huges flames we know. Badly the fuel was pumping, causing the engines to loose a little power and the V2 was already passed ; so pilots had not choice but to take off and trie to land at LeBourget ( not far )... sadly we know the result.
I think 90% of French people ( and at least all French aircraft enthousiast I know ) Cries in tears when we saw Concordre in a last low fly ; just to say Bye Bye my friends over all paris area....I cried.
I f you got to Paris, I recommend you the Musée du Bourget ; with also Concorde prototype and Concorde face to face in the same place : Impressive !
( also a Lot of other nice aircrafts from the 1880's to 2000's ! )
SO, any documentation for my friend ?
About the cold war, did you know that story : Once Soviet Migs came across a buch of McDonnell Banshee over the sea ( don't remeber the place exaclty just that the sea was really cold ) and resulted in a old school dog fight ; I think at least some planes were shot down and as a major crisis Us President got Soviet first secretary on the phone...what did they decided ? To claim this never exist and let the unfortunated pilots who ejected face their destiny in the cold sea...
I got to find back this story, it was published a while ago in a French magazine ( so bad I am stuck in Brazil without my personnal documentation ! )