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Originally Posted by Chris T
I'm quite sure that a future generation will postulate that we couldn't have done it by ourselves and aliens must've helped 
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Just thinking about this further - well obviously aliens must have done it because 40 years later we are unable to replicate and replace these things as they came out of service! The technology has become too challenging for us. Though Airbus may well start on a SST replacement in 2007 once the A380 production line has settled down, that would really get to Boeing, best commonality amongst their short haul fleet, long haul in large and extra large with 2 or 4 engines and Supersonic, rather wipe the competition.