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    Concorde operating costs over 28 years totaled approximately £1 billion, while revenues were £1.75 billion, showing that even with very high costs, Concorde was able to generate profits, albeit small, through serving a niche market. The document then discusses the history and development of supersonic transports including Concorde and challenges faced in designing profitable supersonic airliners.

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    Concorde operating costs over 28 years totaled approximately £1 billion, while revenues were £1.75 billion, showing that even with very high costs, Concorde was able to generate profits, albeit small, through serving a niche market. The document then discusses the history and development of supersonic transports including Concorde and challenges faced in designing profitable supersonic airliners.

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    Concorde operating costs over 28 years totaled approximately £1 billion, while revenues were £1.75 billion, showing that even with very high costs, Concorde was able to generate profits, albeit small, through serving a niche market. The document then discusses the history and development of supersonic transports including Concorde and challenges faced in designing profitable supersonic airliners.

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    Profitable?

    Concorde operating costs over


    nearly 28 years of operation were
    approximately 1 billion, with
    revenues of 1.75 billion. This
    proves that even though the cost
    may be way up there, it is still able
    to generate major profits, even if
    only a little bit at a time

    Supersonic
    Transportation
    Work Cited:
    Wikipedia contributors. "Supersonic
    transport." Wikipedia, The Free
    Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free
    Encyclopedia, 28 Jan. 2016. Web. 4
    Feb. 2016.

    Reflection Question:
    What can you do to be ready for
    the future?
    The first thing you can do is
    prepare for major changes. Youll
    have to accept them for your new
    ways of life. Luckily, things like
    supersonic transportation dont get
    developed in a day; it takes a
    while to produce, so you will have
    time to get accustomed to it. We
    can expect supersonic traveling to
    get a lot more popular as the years
    pass by, mainly because they can
    travel from point A to point B
    faster than anything else.

    A supersonic
    transport (SST) is a
    civilian supersonic
    aircraft designed
    to transport passengers
    at speeds greater than
    the speed of sound. To
    date, the only SSTs to see
    regular service have been
    Concorde and the Tupolev
    Tu-144.

    Brochure by Gentry Boring


    J. Conlin
    1st Period
    February 3, 2016

    Studies
    Supersonic airliners have been the
    objects of numerous recent and ongoing
    design studies. Drawbacks and design
    challenges are excessive noise generation
    (at takeoff and due to sonic
    booms during flight), high development
    costs, expensive construction materials,
    great weight, and an increased cost per
    seat over subsonic airliners. Despite
    these challenges, Concorde was operated
    profitably in a niche market for over 27
    years.

    History
    Who, What, When, Where,
    How, and why?
    Hawker Siddeley is credited
    with the first designs of a
    supersonic aircraft. Hawker
    Siddeley is a group of
    British Manufacturing
    companies engaged in
    aircraft production. The
    designs were given the OK
    in the 60s but the cost was
    too high. but costs were so
    high that the Bristol Aero
    plane Company and Sud
    Aviation eventually merged
    their efforts in 1962 to
    produce Concorde. The
    designs aimed to ferry
    many people around the
    world, with the center being
    the UK.

    Comparison

    Along with shifting political


    considerations, the flying public
    continued to show interest in highspeed ocean crossings. This started
    additional design studies in the US,
    under the name "AST" (Advanced
    Supersonic Transport). Lockheed's SCV
    was a new design for this category,
    while Boeing continued studies with the
    2707 as a baseline.
    By this time, the economics of past SST
    concepts no longer made sense. When
    first designed, the SSTs were
    envisioned to compete with long-range
    aircraft seating 80 to 100 passengers
    such as the Boeing 707, but with newer
    aircraft such as the Boeing 747carrying
    four times that, the speed and fuel
    advantages of the SST concept were
    washed away by sheer size.

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