Oh, Your Private Jet Is Just Subsonic?

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday September 4, 2001 @04:45AM from the technology-innovation dept.

zerogeewhiz writes "Found this article here at The Sydney Morning Herald . It seems that Bill and his mates need to move a bit quicker these days and for a cool US$80 million, you too can overtake the Concorde on a dash to Harrods for dinner. As described in the article, the main complaint about Concorde is that it can only fly supersonic over water and creates those nasty sonic booms that punch holes in buildings and shatter windows. They reckon they can get rid of these waves by making the plane longer. These are gonna be fast but hideous. 737-700s are suddenly passe as a corporate jet..."

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"Bill and his mates"? by barzok · 2001-09-04 04:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

There's no mention of any customer at all. Are we taking potshots at MS for absolutely no reason now? There's no connection here at all.
Re:Concorde Avionics (or lack thereof) by SirWhoopass · 2001-09-04 05:03 · Score: 4, Insightful

Aviation is one of those areas where, if it ain't broke, don't fix it [insert Concorde crash joke here]. People's lives are at stake with the equipment in an aircraft, so you don't want to upgrade simply to make everything look cool.