You didn't get it at all. You should be getting your funeral policies in order.
You didn't get it at all. You should be getting your funeral policies in order.
Putting men space?
They were prototypes.
So not a prototype then,
Before the Cromwell British tanks had inferior engines to the Ruskies.
When will you stop shooting yourself in the foot?
You're not threatening me harm again, are you? Haven't had a good laugh all day.
Men space? Is that like mel spice?
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500 Cavaliers and 950 Centaurs were built. That is an awfully large prototype run.Colin Bignell
Putting men, as in golfers?
No, the Germans the Russiansd captured aftwer WW2, were better than the Germans the Americans captured - or, more likely, the USSR gave more importance to the project/
If Richard Branson had got his way, Concorde would still be flying *and* making a profit for him.
The only reason it's not is because the French and British governments refused to guarantee a supply of spare parts after withdrawing its airworthiness certfifcate following *one* incident, where a major contributory cause was a piece falling off another aircraft.
Concorde could fly further and faster and carry more load more safely than the TU-144, even after the latter was redesigned.
The VC10, which still holds the record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by a subsonic commercial aircraft, the Trident, and the BAC
1-11. There are three to be going on with.
however, it was either government's fault that the parts for the computer systems were no longer manufactured. They were state of the art in the
60's, but by 2000 ....
Still today? I doubt it. Planes like this have a life. Beyond which it becomes too expensive to keep them going. Same as modern cars.
They were supposed to supply spare parts to a private company when they'd already decided it was too expensive to keep supplying them to 'themselves'?
It was still a dreadful waste of resources. Even more so today if it were still flying.
As I heard it, the fleet was about halfway through its design life. I could be wrong, but yes, they would now be coming to their end of life anyway.
They refused totally, whereas they *could* have tried to negotiate a price which kept everyone happy.
I rather think it was never expected to be profitable, even by Branson.
Then again, from some points of view, *all* air travel is a waste of resources.
So only pollution in cities natters? Now that is dumb.
So this "two-stroke oil" burning machine will save the planet?
No, all travel is a waste of resources.
What did you think the relationship between torque, power, and speed was?
Yes - it would have been much better if they'd cancelled it in 1964 instead of TSR2. But the French wouldn't agree, unfortunately.
Its odd that the Russian rocket engines are somewhat better than the American ones are now. In fact the Americans are using the Russian engines in some rockets and have used their designs.
Russia is quite good at designing stuff but quite poor at building them. Almost the opposite of the UK where things are quite frequently a triumph of development over design.
The big problem for Concorde was the construction jigs were destroyed so no more could be built without huge costs.
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