Does he want his own Batplane?

The husband of one of my cousins flew in one while in Europe. While talking to him about it when their family stayed with me during the 96 Olympics he mentioned that despite being billed as luxurious he found it to be uncomfortable.

Interesting. I think this new one is supposed to "wow" folks with amenities, besides being supersonic.

I still say that a Batplane would be cooler!

To me, the more important question is, will it be profitable? Shortening the trips across the oceans was one of the drawing points of the speedy concorde of old.

After the supersonic planes stopped operations, then I thought it would have been nice to have flown in one. It might have been worth the cost.

Maybe I will have another chance to fly in one.

I was working at the Anchorage airport back in the 70s when it landed there. I saw it land but do not recall seeing it take off. That movable nose was cute.

You're a flyer?

The concorde was never profitable, so we'll see if this one can do that...

That is what I recall, time will tell if there is clientele to cover the cost for the new ones.

I saw it land and take off from RDU. A local group chartered it. It was an amazing spectical. There was a huge crowd gathered along the side of the road where it used to (pre 911) parallel the largest runway. The pilots did a go around to entertain the crowd. As it came by, it was really pitched at a steep angle, looking like a large bird about to land. Then those unimaginably loud engines kick in and it climbed away and circled back for the actual landing. Something I'll never forget.

Jim

They've always struck me to be aiming at a non-existent niche. The Robinson helicopters started out the same way.

I would love to have seen that - I'm a big Air Show guy!

Yeah, there's a pretty finite group that can afford to do that with any regularity, and they probably have access to their own jets - owned or rented. If I had my own jet, I'd rather fly on my own schedule to wherever I wanted to go. And those smaller jets can even land and take off from the airport in my own neighborhood.