{"id":10188,"date":"2013-12-01T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10188"},"modified":"2013-12-01T13:45:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T18:45:40","slug":"whatever-happened-to-the-concorde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/whatever-happened-to-the-concorde\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened To The Concorde?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/120113_1655_WhateverHap1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mass supersonic air travel was meant to be the logical next step in the continued development of humanity&#8217;s air-faring capabilities and The Concorde was meant to get us there with a (sonic) bang. Yet it disappeared. Why? Simon Calder explained:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Its mesmerizing speeds meant that it was fuel inefficient. It flew 45 miles per ton of fuel. In contrast today&#8217;s Boeing 787 can travel 120 miles on the same amount of fuel \u2013 and it can carry twice as many passengers while doing it.<\/li>\n<li>It had a really small range. Most flights required it to make a pit-stop to refuel.<\/li>\n<li>Its fuel problems were manageable when oil cost $30 a barrel. Now it costs more than three times as much making it too expensive to fly.<\/li>\n<li>The sonic boom that it produced meant that it could only travel at supersonic speeds over the ocean, limiting the number of routes it could be flown on.<\/li>\n<li>A fatal air crash in July, 2000 led to each of the Concordes having to be modified \u2013 at great cost to the airlines.<\/li>\n<li>After the modifications were carried out an initial proving flight first flew on September 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 2001. It landed soon after the World Trade Center was hit.<\/li>\n<li>After 9\/11 the reluctance of Americans to fly put a final end to the Concorde.<\/li>\n<li>Today the planes are hosted in museums and can be rented out for weddings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about what it was like to fly on the Concorde, the dress code, and how passengers could once get \u00a31,000+ tickets for \u00a3150 over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/concorde-and-supersonic-travel-the-days-when-the-sun-rose-in-the-west-8888836.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/concorde-and-supersonic-travel-the-days-when-the-sun-rose-in-the-west-8888836.html\">The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass supersonic air travel was meant to be the logical next step in the continued development of humanity&#8217;s air-faring capabilities and The Concorde was meant to get us there with a (sonic) bang. Yet it disappeared. Why? Simon Calder explained: Its mesmerizing speeds meant that it was fuel inefficient. It flew 45 miles per ton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/120113_1655_WhateverHap1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10192,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188\/revisions\/10192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}