Concorde was an engineering marvel built in the 1960s with basic tools and converted military engines, flying safely for 27 years. But it never changed travel because it was a political project, a 1962 Anglo-French treaty to beat the Soviets, not a commercial one. Boom needs to learn that lesson.
What was amazing about Concorde is we built a supersonic airliner in the 1960s with aluminum and drafting paper and slide rules. Yeah. And converted military engines. And, you know, and it flew for 27 years and it had one major accident, which for a 1960s design, one in 27 years of flying is actually not a bad safety record. We obviously, we can and should do better today. But what it missed on was actually changing how anybody really travels. And I think that goes back to the origin. So the Concorde was established in 1962 via treaty between the British and the French. And so the goal was not really let's go build a commercial supersonic airliner. The goal was to show that Western technology was superior to Soviet technology. So it was very much like Apollo. So, you know, 1969, we flew Concorde for the first time. 1969, we landed on the moon. Half a century later, can't do either of those things.
