Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed
by Retric on Sunday January 26, 2025 @08:11PM
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The world and more importantly the wealthy are vastly richer today than in 1976 when the concord started flying, and the R&D costs should be far lower.
There’s thousands of billionaires in the world. Not all of them would buy a supersonic private airplane, but include non billionaire CEO’s etc and the market is plenty large to support moderate scale production assuming they can keep costs under say 5x what a reasonably comparable subsonic aircraft would cost.
There’s thousands of billionaires in the world. Not all of them would buy a supersonic private airplane, but include non billionaire CEO’s etc and the market is plenty large to support moderate scale production assuming they can keep costs under say 5x what a reasonably comparable subsonic aircraft would cost.