Catastrophic Flight Demonstration at Paris Air Show - Supersonic Airliners Dispute for Supremacy
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2024
- On 3 June 1973, the world witnessed a struggle for air superiority between 2 powerfull supersonic jetliners, but only one of them would come up victorious.
"Then they'll see something they won't forget."....how prophetic in this case....
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Today, a safer SST can be built and would be a welcome addition to the current fleet of long-range airliners that we currently have . Sitting and traveling on a B-777 for 12 to 14 hours is an ordeal . As for the SST, the fare would be astronomical, and would it be economically feasible ? The Concorde was subsidized by the French government and barely was profitable.
Showing off is a universal human tendency - and seldom has a good outcome - this case in point.
Had they been satisfied with their already impressive display & a tad more humble, this accident wouldn't have occurred.
It was 100% preventable.
RIP to all the victims - doubly so to those in the destroyed homes.
In Jesus name 🙏 AMEN
Despite having stolen the Concorde blueprints and years of technical research, the soviets couldn't produce a similar aircraft to the Concorde but instead a poor quality copy that never performed as expected. The only very limited useful use of the Tu-144 was given ironically by NASA, under a contract to research aerodynamics. In contrast, the Concorde performed impeccably for decades serving two main airlines. The only fatal accident was not caused by a flaw in the design or fault on the operation but by a tragic unpredictible event. The Tu-144 symbolizes another "achievement" of the communist system of the era.
You fail to mention that the Tu-144 was a lousy pathetic copy of the British-French built Concorde... That's why it was called or nicknamed the Concordski by so many... The Concorde was not perfect but it carried safely dozens of thousands of passengers from 1976 to 2003 except for the tragedy of the Air France Concorde F-BTSC in July 2000 in Roissy CDG which effectively ended Concorde's career in 2003. The Concorde was a good design with unfortunately a number of weaknesses which could have in fact been easily addressed and fixed but Aerospatiale / British Aircraft Corporation on one hand and Air France and British Airways aka Speedbird on the other hand seem like they had been fast asleep during the years of successful commercial exploitation of that plane despite several rather serious technical incidents none of which turned out to be fatal but the causes of those were never truly addressed by the manufacturers ... After the crash of the TU-144 in Paris that year, the Concordski was relegated to flying inside the Soviet Union only and exclusively between Moscow and Alma Ata ( Almaty ) in Kazakhstan and those who flew on those trips were scared to say the least... As to me, I call the TU-144, the Soviet Supersonic flying coffin....
Supersonic jets were a terrible idea.
then why are there thousands of supersonic jets around the World?
The Tu-144 was the most problematic of the two supersonic airliners (its development was rushed, as well as its production, there were numerous incidents involving the aircraft, and it wasn't a very comfortable aircraft to fly in). Concorde, on the other hand, had a much more successful and fruitful career (until the crash of Air France Flight 4590). Personally, I don't think supersonic air travel is a bad idea, but there is definitely room for improvement in it in the future (if a new supersonic airliner is ever built).
I both disagree, and predict they’ll be back
I mean supersonic passenger jets btw
@@TheShowblox so why are they a terrible idea?
Yes I know their history and their issues, but you state your comment without rationale.