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Old 10-17-2016, 07:37 AM  
crockett
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham View Post
It will cost too much to make it viable. Concorde failed because not enough people were willing to spend the extra $1,000 to get to their destination faster. Slower 747s made a fortune.
Concord failed, because a tire exploded caught a plane on fire and everyone died. It was a failure in the design and couldn't be fixed to stop it from happening again so they had to cease operating those aircraft.


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