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The call sign "Speed Bird" wasn't used exclusively by the Concorde. That is the call sign of all British Airways aircraft due to the 'bird' logo on the tail. <br />One reason why the Concorde was finally killed off and why it was so expensive to operate, was because of limited US routes. The environmentalist whackos in this country wouldn't let BA or AF fly the plane over the continental US at more than subsonic speeds. Therefore both carriers were restricted to New York only. If they could have made transcontinental flights with continuing trans-pacific flights, the operating costs would have come down & probably the fares as well. <br />This is also why there never was a US supersonic passenger jet. Boeing (and Lockheed I think) looked into supersonic transports, but even back then met with such resistance from environmentalists with subsonic only flight restrictions over the continental US, the American companies decided it wasn't worth the expense. The airlines wouldn't invest in a supersonic plane that couldn't be flown any faster than existing planes (or subsonic planes on the drawing boards) on coast-to-coast flights. Supersonic use would only be allowed on trans-oceanianic flights.
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