On 02 Nov 2003 18:12:33 GMT, 362436 (Ron) wrote:

rom: "NEMO ME IMPUNE"
Date: 11/2/2003 10:44 AM Mountain Standard Time
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Have you ever been able to make a SST?
NOPE

Of course we could have. We had the XB-70 capable of Mach 3 40 years ago,
which in some ways could be considered an SST.

The SST did not happen because of not being able to, there was a lot of public
opposition for environmental reasons.

The government was helping to fund it since it was so expensive, but stopped
funding it, which killed it.

Ron
Pilot/Wildland Firefighter

And would have killed the concord if the governments of France and the UK
would have been interested in anything other than the "prestige" of flying
a costly white elephant.

Al Minyard