If you got up early and your plane left at 6 a.m., you'd arrive in London at 3 in the afternoon.

So what's the problem with arriving early in the morning or late at night?  Whenever I've gone to Europe, I have arrived in the afternoon.

Well obviously there wasn't the demand, it was a money-losing venture for Air France and British Airways, and the Tu-144 was only used by Aeroflot because the Soviet government forced the to use it. If there had been demand for supersonic travel, we would still have it, and we would have a third-generation SST by now.

boeing247 wrote on Nov 15^th, 2011 at 11:58pm:

And the price of fuel!

boeing247 wrote on Nov 15^th, 2011 at 11:58pm:

Is there any reference that backs up this newly discovered 'awareness' you mention there?  
I mean, I would be happy to see people or even companies acting aware in regard to the environment, but it could well be that you are following a naive assessment of the situation.

Mark names it. That's the 'awareness' which really is present. The costs involved.

I didn't take your statement as being Concorde related, it looked more like a general one to me. However, do you have any reference on this one?
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Well, lets say I know pretty much about the 'protests' and their topics within the Concorde era, maybe that's why your new fact base now raises questions. Maybe I was missing some vital data until now though.
I could name some environmental concerns regarding that old plane, but I'm mainly surprised about the context you are using them so far, which is a new one for me.  Hence the question regarding references.

CoolP wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 3:54pm:



I agree with CoolP. Plus, since barely 1% of the world's carbon emissions are a result of all commercial aviation from around the world, I'd doubt even 200 SST's would budge anything.

In the 80's they thought the world was going to freeze over, now its melting. Our weather models (five of them here in the U.S) can't accurately predict the weather for a week from now half the time; how on earth are we supposed to be able to predict what the earth will do in 10 years, 100 years or 1,000 years? Its absurd. Politicians are making it like a religion, to get money, followers, and start a 'cause' that will lead them towards the office they seek. In 2009, when Britain's parliment approved the first major act that helps the environment to combat global warming, it snowed in London, in October, for the first time since like 1896. Yeah, global warming, a load of B.S I think.

Well Seattle is one of the most aviation-oriented cities in the world, with the second largest maker of commercial aircraft being based there, plus a quite large international airport. However thats just a city, a small space, whose metropolitan area including and surrounding the city consists of less than 8200 sq mi. So on a massive planet the size of ours, with massive amounts of cars, factories, boats, and homes, the emissions of the airliners is minimal.