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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by searine on Monday March 21, 2016 @06:36PM (#11332744)
>Nobody wants to be first in this space.

Yeah, there already was a first in this space, and it went down in flames.

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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by lmm on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @06:36AM (#11335535)
One major crash, at an airline with serious maintenance issues. The final cancellation was supposedly on economic grounds but politics factored into it (I have heard it claimed that AF deliberately overstated maintenance costs to prevent BA from continuing to operate Concorde).
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