Concorde Legacy
ElectroVlasic brings up supersonic transport by predictably sighting the commercial failure of Concorde, but overlooks the legacy that this “commercial” failure left us with starting over 30 years ago: -
1. The technical knowledge base and skills base that enabled Airbus to develop in the early years, to offer an alternative to what was likely to become a monopoly market
2. A hard lesson in air transport economics, passengers are primarily interested in cost of travel, not speed of travel.
Boeing choose not to learn these lessons that Concorde left the market with when it focused development efforts on the sonic cruiser project, and is now experiencing the opportunity cost of not offering the product portfolio to the customers are looking for.
Subsides aside the proof is in the order books.