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When I walked through Concorde (both the prototype 002 at Yeovilton Museum in the UK and the ex-BA one at the Museum of Flight in Seattle), I was struck by how
by cyberferret 8y ago
When I walked through Concorde (both the prototype 002 at Yeovilton Museum in the UK and the ex-BA one at the Museum of Flight in Seattle), I was struck by how tiny and cramped the passenger cabin was.
Personally, as attractive as supersonic flight is to a former pilot like me, I would far rather spend time in a wide body cabin and arrive a few hours later than suffer the claustrophobia of sitting in a skinny tube. From what I have seen, the Boom concept jet has a similar fuselage profile to Concorde.
- ghaff 8y agoMy dad got switched to a Concorde once and his reaction relative to his usual 747 (probably) first class was cool to do once but meh. Less space and it got him into London at rush hour rather than having a nice dinner on the plane. And first class in those days, modulo first class lounge that got turned into more business class seating at some point, was much less comfortable than modern business class much less first class where it exists. It would be nice if transPacific were faster (though that has its own set of range problems) but I don't find flying business class from the US East Coast to Europe a particular hardship.