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did anyone buy the jigs, tooling, etc. for the concorde?
by fnord77 5y ago
did anyone buy the jigs, tooling, etc. for the concorde?
- toomuchtodo 5y agoDifferent times. Communications and financing are a different beast today. One can reach out to folks they'd never have interacted with in the old days (Twitter, for example). Someone with experience could put together 7 digit financing in a few days, 8 digit financing in weeks, maybe more.
- shakezula 5y agoThis is one of the most interesting features (or bugs, depending who you ask) about the current time we live in. We can organize massive funding and technological efforts like this over morning coffee and Twitter banter.
- dehrmann 5y agoI think Airbus owned them outright.
- cedilla 5y agoAirbus pledged to supply to tools and spare parts for Concorde until the late 2000s, so yes. (Of course they stopped supplying them in 2003 when the service was retired after the crash).
- bentsku 5y agoAirbus used the new tech for their next generations of plane I believe. I guess the fly-by-wire has been used for the A320 soon after. ABS brakes, a more resistant steel alloy, there is this list in French for some of the innovation made for the Concorde and used elsewhere afterward. http://www.club-concorde.org/ssc/ret_tech-fr.htm http://www.club-concorde.org/ssc/ret_tech-fr.htm