Why didn’t it succeed?
Concorde flights came to a screeching halt after only 27 years of operation on October 24, 2003. The reason? Excessive cost, high fares, and loud noise. On a regular flight, Concordes consumed 6,771 gallons of fuel, which quickly exceeded the profit made from the flight. In addition to that, only a total of 20 Concordes were built and no airline ordered them except for Air France and British Airways, who had to as they were state-run airlines at the time.
Oh, and a 2000 crash that killed everyone on board (109 people) and four people on the ground.
No post on here has ever made me feel older. Just the thought that somebody might not know about Concorde because it’s so far in the past makes me want to hide in a closet.
I know, right? That was such a staple of aviation in general. Everybody knew about Concorde, just like how everyone can immediately recognise a Boeing 747. Maybe in thirty years time, some young’in will post about ‘I learned about an aircraft called a 747.’
Concorde was such an icon, they even made an entire disaster movie featuring it, Airport ‘79:
https://youtu.be/BdwoWbBduxw
Not so fun fact: the aircraft used in the movie, F-BTSC, was also the actual Concorde that crashed in 2000, ultimately killing the type.
There are people having children right now who weren’t born yet when Borat came out
There are people who still do not know Borat was not real but staged and the actor Sasha Baron Cohens parents were some of the earlier Zionist colonists. His life work is spreading Islamophobia and promoting Israel.
Frak you, man… Frak you
Borat came out 19 years ago. Sure, 19 year olds have kids, but not many of them do. By that logic you can also say that there are people who were born after 9/11 who have kids in school.
Doesn’t matter how many. We’re old. Some things we experienced when we ourselves were already adults happened a generation ago…
IKR. I was in a costume hire shop a few years ago and asked the shop lady (age late ~20s), “do you have a Zorro costume?” She asked me, “What’s a Zorro?” Faaark I’m officially old!
True story. Antonio Banderas then ran into the store, yelled “Oi!” and stormed out.
Let’s have a few brewskis on the porch and yell at kids to get off our lawn.
And everybody clapped
That shop lady?
Albert Einstein.