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Which is what I meant - it was designed and built by the state, not a private company, so the careful wording is probably correct. Although come to think of it
by orbital-decay 6y ago
Which is what I meant - it was designed and built by the state, not a private company, so the careful wording is probably correct.
Although come to think of it, Sud Aviation/Aerospatiale was also a state-owned company, and the BAC wasn't private either, so the nitpicking can go on forever.
- bobthepanda 6y agoBritain and France also definitely explicitly paid for Concorde.
- jbay808 6y agoI'm sorry to be so nit-picky but it always pains me to see a long exchange each side doesn't understand the other. Here's a minor reading comprehension issue where I think you and the GP are failing to communicate: > first privately built supersonic airliner and the second ever after Concorde In this sentence, do you think "second ever" refers to "second ever privately built supersonic airliner"? Or "second ever supersonic airliner"? If the Concorde was the first privately built supersonic airliner, what airplane is "first" intended to refer to in Boom's marketing?
- dwd 6y agoBAC I believe was private (though merged) firm until it became British Aerospace (later renamed to BAE Systems). Have to check on that though. I also immediately spotted the oversight of the T-144 which was enough to give up reading the article and just look at the pictures.