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Yeah. But to be fair, it was the first supersonic airliner, so they were feeling around a bit in the dark when it came to estimating demand. They would have all looked like geniuses if enough demand to build 700 air frames had materialized.

I remember when the aircraft first went into service. Everybody thought subsonic air travel, at least over the ocean, would become a thing of the past.

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