In sci.space.policy jimmydevice wrote:
kevin wrote:

In article ,
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Concorde -never- cut it. It's a perfect example of creating a service
without looking into the market for it.


Concorde *did* show an operational profit for many years. People were
willing to pay for speed, service, and snob-appeal.

R&D expenses had to be written-off. It was expensive to design and
build. That's not uncommon in systems that advance the state of the art.

It took a while to learn how to operate and market Concorde effectively.
Changing times ended her career. But in between, she flew profitably.
Did it ever make back it's initial development investment?
Was it a Rah-Rah we beat the US, screw the UK and French taxpayers?

It did not end up brining back the development money, largely because
the production was halted really early on. It was not designed or
intended to not bring the money back - it was just not designed to
bring it back over just slightly more than 60 planes.

Jim Davis


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