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Concorde Mark 2: Airbus files plans for new supersonic jet
Supersonic passenger planes could once again be racing through the skies with Airbus having filed a patent for what could become the 'son of Concorde'. The new jet could fly from London to New York in an hour - opening up the possibility of a transatlantic return journey in a day. Concorde 2 would be capable of flying more than four times the speed of sound – or more than 2,500mph, according to documents lodged with the US Patent Office by the aerospace and defence group. (www.telegraph.co.uk) さらに...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
... and this concept would be a hundert times more expensive to operate than the Concord was.
UK/FRANCE could not make it pay using a free aircraft, why is this better?
You mean they have not learned their lesson yet with the first SST? that there are not enough multi millionaire passengers to make SST operation viable? And how about the sonic boom?
This useless article is not about an airplane, it is about a passenger spacecraft. The idea is at least 50 years old. Very old stuff about plans which were discarded multiple times.
Let's see, the SR-71 'official' speed record is about 2200mph, carrying less than 2 hours fuel and 2 'passengers'. Airbus believes they can build an aircraft capable of carrying 100 or more passengers at world record flight speeds? Kelly Johnson does not work for Airbus (God rest his soul) and without someone like him designing this aircraft and the having the advances in technology to back it up, this is only heated rhetoric coming from someone's imagination. It will not happen, even if Sir Branson throws his money at it.
Then comment on a hundred