What will replace Concorde?

Question

Surely something has to replace it!

Answer 1

Nothing, sorry...a classic aviation boondoggle.

Answer 2

The government have already replaced Concorde.

It was done in Whitehall the day after the decision to scrap it.

Basically it involved a sheet of A4 headed paper folded along its length then the two edges being diagonally folded to make the wings.

Sir Richard Branston pickle submitted a design much like the above but featuring a little tear on the back that could be pulled up to form a tail.................the committee threw this design out because they think he's a smart **** and he would show them up.

Answer 3

Nothing on the drawing boards at this time which shows signs of materialising soon.

Answer 4

If you mean a new supersonic airliner.

I doubt there will be one for the next 50 years. Fuel prices are so crazy that it would be crazily expensive to run. Also with this whole 'green' thing being top of people's agendas, to have supersonic airliners which eat fuel the way concorde did is very unfashionable at the moment.

Answer 5

There were only ever two supersonic airliners, the BAE/Aerospatiale Concorde and the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144, none of which are still operational (although there is one Concorde at Brooklands Museum, Surrey, which is probably still operational if the avionics and engines were fitted back in).

The fastest operational airliner is the Boeing 747-400, so that's basically taken over a partition of it. Perhaps SpaceShip Two, the "spaceliner" Virgin Galactic is going to use, will build the future of airliners and may be accquired by some private company like whoever maintains Air Force One and become a "space/airliner"! But that'll be a Loooooooong time.

Answer 6

Absolutely nothing - for a long, long time anyway!

Answer 7

nothing has done yet, i dont reckon it will be a plane,

some kind of intercontinental maglev train thing that runs in vacuum tunnels - bit pricey and i reckon at least 50years away.

Answer 8

Nothing in our lifetime.

Fuel prices have made it economically impossible.  Perhaps some kind of atmospheric plane, or something with a hydrogen technology...... way in the future.

Answer 9

Hyper jets. Hypersonic jets capable of speeds of 4000 mph

Answer 10

There's nothing that can replace such a fascinating and beautiful aeroplane such as the Concorde - not for many years to come. Pity.

Answer 11

Likely replacement will not be an "atmospheric" supersonic plane, but a sub-orbital plane that will climb to near-space altitude (above 90K feet). There's no atmosphere, so little resistance to very high speeds... however it won't be for a while, and it will likely be very expensive.

Answer 12

Personally, I believe it will be a re-usable craft like the shuttle.

Answer 13

It costs money to go fast.  Probably not for a while.

Answer 14

I do not think anyone will produce a replacement for the Concorde. It was too small, too expensive to fly and basically not viable to maintain in the present financial climate and of course there would considerable environmental issues to overcome.

Answer 15

Rumors in the aviation community indicate that a civilian varation of NASA's Aurora, (with ram air technology engines and lower space flight capabilities), will start to make test flights flights in the next couple of decades and go commercial soon thereafter. An aircraft of this type can make flights from New York to Tokyo in less than 3 hours a common thing.