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SwiftFlyer [2008-09-09 02:26:29 +0000 UTC]
I did see the mock-up in Florida many years ago. It was at one time a tourist attraction. When I saw it, the building was being used for something else, but I talked my way in. It was impressive. The mock-up only half of the airplane, split down the middle. I drove by a few years ago (probably 15 years ago) and it had been disassembled and its pieces were strewn about the property. I may have taken a pic. but it most likely is not very good quality and I do not know where it is.
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TomCatDriver In reply to SwiftFlyer [2008-09-10 07:27:06 +0000 UTC]
a shame ours didn,t make it....that 2707 would have just blown the Concorde and Tu-144 away!
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TomCatDriver In reply to SwiftFlyer [2008-09-12 02:13:45 +0000 UTC]
just not enough government cash to go around,between the Apollo program and that "great" war in Vietnam......
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SwiftFlyer In reply to TomCatDriver [2008-09-12 02:15:18 +0000 UTC]
That's for sure. The Concorde never made a profit.
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TomCatDriver In reply to SwiftFlyer [2008-09-12 02:33:24 +0000 UTC]
ours probably wouldn,t have either,but in the 1960s,it just never occurred to anybody that fuel prices would just skyrocket the way they did. let,s hope our next government does something to break this insane addiction to foreign oil!
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SwiftFlyer In reply to TomCatDriver [2008-09-12 03:59:07 +0000 UTC]
The government can help, but it is going to be private industry that makes it happen.
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TomCatDriver In reply to SwiftFlyer [2008-09-12 05:33:44 +0000 UTC]
all they need is Ca$h.....Lot$ of Ca$h.....gee,to think of all the good stuff we coulda done with the money that was thrown away in W,s Sandbox.....
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TomCatDriver In reply to SwiftFlyer [2008-09-12 06:13:56 +0000 UTC]
you and me both...! the acts of the last 8 years should not go unpunished either...time for some strict Rule Of Law. i,and many others are so fed up with seeing those in High Places commit so many serious offenses and violations,and getting away Scot-Free....! our Constitution is NOT "just a piece of paper" and The Election IS America,and the it is very core of what we,re all about as a nation.
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Airshipgirl [2008-09-06 14:36:19 +0000 UTC]
Love them both!
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TomCatDriver In reply to Airshipgirl [2008-09-06 18:40:07 +0000 UTC]
so do i! same plane,just that one,s in the landing configuration,and the other is in full trim for Mach-3 flight.
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fwa2500 [2008-09-06 14:05:36 +0000 UTC]
it is such a shame the 2707 and Lockheed's proposal never went into production.....they are such beasts....hopefully one day we will have SSTs again
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TomCatDriver In reply to fwa2500 [2008-09-06 18:49:25 +0000 UTC]
perhaps the SST program can be revived with hydrogen power...rising fuel costs were a contributing factor to it,s cancellation. Big Oil has had things their own way long enough....!
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TomCatDriver In reply to fwa2500 [2008-09-07 04:31:47 +0000 UTC]
it,s all a matter of need and justification. hopefully,SST,s will be brought back by popular demand,and hopefully before i,m too old to fly one!
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bear48 [2008-09-06 12:35:09 +0000 UTC]
I never got to see one of these
nice work
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TomCatDriver In reply to bear48 [2008-09-06 18:55:50 +0000 UTC]
nobody ever got to see one of these.....damn shame really.
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TomCatDriver In reply to bear48 [2008-09-06 19:09:56 +0000 UTC]
for what might have been......
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bear48 In reply to TomCatDriver [2008-09-06 19:12:38 +0000 UTC]
This is the sort of thing fairy tales are made of
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TomCatDriver In reply to bear48 [2008-09-06 19:46:24 +0000 UTC]
it didn,t have to be a fairy tale.....just needed funding.
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TomCatDriver In reply to bear48 [2008-09-07 04:29:45 +0000 UTC]
"No Bucks,No Buck Rogers...."
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bear48 In reply to TomCatDriver [2008-09-07 04:46:40 +0000 UTC]
You can say taht again
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TomCatDriver In reply to bear48 [2008-09-07 06:02:56 +0000 UTC]
funding=technology=staying on top....
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