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It was withdrawn because USA had no such to this plane and they were pissed, so FAA forbid concorde to fly over their country, and always made clear they would

by SFJulie 10y ago

It was withdrawn because USA had no such to this plane and they were pissed, so FAA forbid concorde to fly over their country, and always made clear they would revoke the tolerance for landing near the transatlantic anytime soon. USA is okay for being the first, but not the other country. They look like France (and UK) of the colonial times. So fun that a nation became what they fought against. https://www.contrepoints.org/2016/07/30/261731-usa-letat-a-tue-vol-supersonique https://www.contrepoints.org/2016/07/30/261731-usa-letat-a-t...

mathw 10y ago
The Concorde was forbidden to fly overland in the USA because the sonic boom is horrible for the people underneath it. And it's even horribly loud flying subsonic. We won't get supersonic commercial flight again without going suborbital (which seems likely to happen at some point, just land SpaceShipTwo somewhere else... like Australia), or someone figuring out how to design an airframe which dissipates the boom before it hits the ground. People are working on that, though.
- SFJulie 10y ago
  Well, I have been looking at a map of USA ... It is a big country with a looot of space with inhabited zones. I have a picture for you to compare how small France is compared to USA http://www.wanderingfrance.com/blog/images/143.png http://www.wanderingfrance.com/blog/images/143.png Oh, and the mirage and rafale find inhabited places everyday to make their sonic bangs, so I am sure it can be done in the USA too and that their military planes are doing so too.
saiya-jin 10y ago
world is constantly changing, it's just us with our super-limited lifespans that see (and want to see) some things as static, stable and given. empires rise and fall, look where greek, roman or ottoman empire where and where the countries are now. same will happen to US, it lost many ideals of it's founding fathers and losing more every day. I wouldn't stress too much about it, it's natural. all old must die so new, maybe even better can be born

by SFJulie 10y ago

mathw 10y ago

The Concorde was forbidden to fly overland in the USA because the sonic boom is horrible for the people underneath it. And it's even horribly loud flying subsonic. We won't get supersonic commercial flight again without going suborbital (which seems likely to happen at some point, just land SpaceShipTwo somewhere else... like Australia), or someone figuring out how to design an airframe which dissipates the boom before it hits the ground. People are working on that, though.

SFJulie 10y ago
Well, I have been looking at a map of USA ... It is a big country with a looot of space with inhabited zones. I have a picture for you to compare how small France is compared to USA http://www.wanderingfrance.com/blog/images/143.png http://www.wanderingfrance.com/blog/images/143.png Oh, and the mirage and rafale find inhabited places everyday to make their sonic bangs, so I am sure it can be done in the USA too and that their military planes are doing so too.

saiya-jin 10y ago

world is constantly changing, it's just us with our super-limited lifespans that see (and want to see) some things as static, stable and given. empires rise and fall, look where greek, roman or ottoman empire where and where the countries are now. same will happen to US, it lost many ideals of it's founding fathers and losing more every day. I wouldn't stress too much about it, it's natural. all old must die so new, maybe even better can be born