I guess that makes sense. I just looked it up and the whole plane went for around $39,000,000 in 1977 which translates to over $147,000,000 in today's dollars.

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Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

That pricing had to be largely political. That's a hugely expensive aircraft with very limited production.

If you discounted every penny of engineering, I'm quite sure that you still could not build it for $39M in piece part costs back in 1977.

If you built it today, it would cost well over $300M.

Remember, speed costs money............and lots of it...........Mach 2.0 results in an airplane considerably more expensive than a B-747, even though it's significantly smaller.

Complete speculation on your part. What could you POSSIBLY know about jet engine manufacture?

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Meh..........I know enough to get into trouble............

We're heavily involved with Pratt on the new NGPF engines. They have three of them going at the same time...........one for the Bombardier, one for the Mitsubishi MRJ, and the larger one for the Airbus A-320.

Here's a tool that we recently completed for the new GEnx engine on the 787:
The OD is 46" diameter. The top surface (where the engine components sit) is flat to within .001"