I think it'd be impressive if they got the 2707 into service at the same time as Concorde despite being a much more complicated airliner. One other thing, Air France and British Airways were government controlled and would be willing to fly this extremely unprofitable aircraft for the sake of national pride. I'd like to see any of America's notoriously profit troubled airlines try to fly the 2707.It was originally planned for prototype construction to begin in 1967, with first flight in 1970, production aircraft starting to be built in 1969, full flight test operations in 1970, and certification for service in 1974.
Given that mockups and prototype construction was just beginning in '69/'70, you can probably add two to three years to all those dates to get an adjusted schedule, which puts the 2707 making its first flight right in the heart of the oil shocks, with years of flight testing to go, and not reaching passenger service until about 1977.
Well, that assumes that the flight test schedule holds, which it probably wouldn't. "No earlier than 1977" mught be the better way to phrase it. A debut after 1980 could be equally possible, as could a cancellation of development during flight test due to cancelled orders as a result of oil shocks.I think it'd be impressive if they got the 2707 into service at the same time as Concorde despite being a much more complicated airliner. One other thing, Air France and British Airways were government controlled and would be willing to fly this extremely unprofitable aircraft for the sake of national pride. I'd like to see any of America's notoriously profit troubled airlines try to fly the 2707.
In most timelines where development continued, the prototype will be ready to fly some time real soon.Assuming congress didn't cut funding, when would Boeing's SST make its first flight given reasonable assumptions on the inevitable problems that would crop up?
Could you provide a source for that ?...
and build up a customer base that combined with some major re-pricing of the tickets following the Oil Shocks allowed (the BA Concorde's at least) to operate at a profit until 2000.
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Could you provide a source for that ?
All I've found so far stated the opposite : that Concorde never made a profit.
If we were talking about the Lockheed L-2000 we just might see it in the early 1970's, if nothing goes wrong.I think it'd be impressive if they got the 2707 into service at the same time as Concorde despite being a much more complicated airliner. One other thing, Air France and British Airways were government controlled and would be willing to fly this extremely unprofitable aircraft for the sake of national pride. I'd like to see any of America's notoriously profit troubled airlines try to fly the 2707.
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How about for the British government?Here's a few:
http://www.concordesst.com/retire/faq_r.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Operating_economics
https://www.tenfactsabout.co.uk/0007concorde.htm
Which all state that once they raised the Ticket Price to match Public Perception of how much was being paid for a flight, it operated at a profit of £30-50 million/year for BA.
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