Doesn't it seem odd that the Concorde SST is anachronistic?

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Actually it was efficient, what it wasn't was economic because of the economies of scale, too few were built. BA ran their Concorde fleet at a proffit.

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It would be a shame to think that Concorde, a 1960s aircraft, was the pinacle of high speed commercial aviation.

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Why Airplane Toilets are made small? Why the toilets in the 1st class are not bigger than the economy?

It isn't! Super-sonic flight is a very mature and widely exploited technology which has been around for over 50 years. What it is, is inefficient.

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How many hours do you need to move on through a Saab 340?

Efficient, supersonic passenger transport is very achievable in terms of technology. We have learned enough in the past 40 years, since Concorde was designed, to build a much better SST. Unfortunately, politics will prevent it from ever happening. The enviro-kooks who are afraid of sonic booms and ozone depletion have the ear of the politicians.

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