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I can't upvote this enough. As someone who was lucky enough to have flown on Concorde 20 years ago (almost to the date), I'm extremely sad that it isn't even an
by ragesh 13y ago
I can't upvote this enough. As someone who was lucky enough to have flown on Concorde 20 years ago (almost to the date), I'm extremely sad that it isn't even an option anymore. The thrill of hitting mach 2 and being able to see the curvature of the earth is something I'm going to carry to the grave. That's just sad.
It simply feels wrong that we were able to make it happen and couldn't figure out a way to make it sustainable in all this time.
- switch007 13y agoRich people got to fly quicker than they needed to and it was created with public tax money, to the tune of over a billion pounds. If Concorde wasn't the poster child of excess, I don't know what was. Thank heavens we soon discovered we were destroying the planet and environmentalism became a thing.
- gambiting 13y agoAre you saying that it was a bad thing they tried to make it a reality?
- switch007 13y agoNo. I think it was an outstanding achievement. I'm proud it was (partly) a British creation. It was an engineering marvel. But was my summary inaccurate? I find endless applauding of its greatness tough to stomach when it was just a mode of transport for the mega rich and given how much it cost.
- ragesh 13y agoTo some extent I think we're both saying the same thing. We figured out how to make it happen, but in all this time we couldn't be bothered to make it sustainable. And then it looks like everyone just gave up and said, "Meh, it's too hard"