Tom Brandt wrote:
>
> At 04:49 PM 07/27/00, Nick Demos wrote:
> >It kind of boggles my mind with our advances in technology there bo
> >foreseeable successors to the COncorde.  Wouldn't a 400 passenger SST
> >that could make four round trips a day between America and europe be
> >economically viable?
>
> One of the issues alluded to in a previous message is noise - SSTs are so
> noisy that Concorde is restricted from flying most places in the US.  They
> occasionally make an appearance in other US cities besides Washington and
> NY as a charter, but I am not sure if they get a special waiver to fly to
> other cities, of if they fly to them as subsonic speeds.

I may be really wrong here, but does it fly to Dulles anymore?  I
thought
(due to financial reasons) it had stopped some years ago.