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>>The delay was from court battles over the noise issue.
> True. But it wasn't really a problem. Does the Europeans have more
>capacities to handle high level of noise ? No.

*Just a less, uh, "developed" legal system.

So we are undercivilised ? Are we ?
Do you really believe that if the plane makes a lot of noise to
the point that it is untolerable, just because we are underdevelop
we can't have it stoped ?

Just typical of a certain attitude about foreign countries.
But just wait a while. If you can see what I mean...

>>Suppose you tell us
>>what US manufacturers did to kill it.  I think what killed it were high
>>fuel consumption and limited range.
>The same way automakers killed the passenger railroad industries. (Through
>lobbying in congress to get laws favoring them even indirectly.)

*What kind of laws?  More specifics, please.

Sorry I don't have the reference numbers... but,
Instead of allocating money to the development of passenger railroads,
congress, under heavy lobbying, passed many laws to develop highway
construction. Even forcing states by law or by cutting its subsidies to
maintenance. Where was that lobby from: Detroit... And this is only one
example.

>Autonomie is not an issues I beleive. Concorde has a range long enough to
>cover 10000 Km. in one shot.

*Baloney.  If it did, we would be seeng Concorde nonstop routes from Paris
*(or London) to Hong Kong, Capetown, Mexico City, Rio de Janiero, and
*Tokyo.

Thnaks to treat me as a liar. Besides Honk-Kong is much farther than
10000Kmfrom Paris. Just Paris-JFK is 6500km apart and I know that
for instance Pres. F Mitterant visited Venezuela 2 years ago and flew straight
from Paris.

If a Paris Brasilia or else wasn't done it might be because there weren't
enough pleople ready to pay the high price of a ticket.

Jean-Marc.
jd3l+@andrew.cmu.edu