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Re:New Planes That May Change Travel by Mizza on Monday September 10, 2018 @04:57PM (#17955123)
Yeah, but when I think "supersonic jet", I think of the extremely vivid image of a the flaming Concorde crash[1] - it was the cover of every major paper. I think lots of people who remember that era still do, and it'll make me extremely unlikely to ever step into a Boom (the name doesn't help either), even though I do want them to succeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590#/media/...

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Re:New Planes That May Change Travel by NeedMoreTea on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:49AM (#17957450)
The Concorde crash was caused by bits of titanium engine cowling on the runway shredding a tyre and damaging a wing tank. The largest piece was an 18" long, 1" wide strip of metal that tore 10lb chunks out of the tyre.

Do you associate DC10's the same way? (The debris were from a DC10).

Apart from being a chain of events vanishingly unlikely to repeat, I doubt all other aircraft would come away from the same scenario fatality free.

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Re:New Planes That May Change Travel by bobthepanda on Monday September 10, 2018 @05:33PM (#17955401)
I mean, you could also say that a lot of people think plane is synonymous with "hijacking", "terrorism", or "9/11". Doesn't make flying unprofitable.
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