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Post by buster on Sept 30, 2023 19:12:58 GMT
got into a discussion on facebook a couple of years ago (well, alright then an argument) there were the usual halfwits claiming the moon landings were faked. so I put forward a snippet that I'd read in the great gobshite Clarkson's book, I Know You Got Soul, in it he mentions talking to a NASA engineer who said 'compared to getting Concorde to work, putting a man on the moon was a doddle' I asked the question where are the Concorde conspiracists? it largely seemed to work. the other day however I read (on the interweb) that there is now a generation that believes Concorde was a myth because we couldn't possibly have had supersonic passenger flight and now we dont. its a strange time in a strange world
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Post by duffer on Sept 30, 2023 19:47:29 GMT
Don't get started... The only commercial aircraft with afterburners. The physics involved in the fact that supersonic air cannot pass through a jet engine, so it had to be slowed down first.. And my favourite.. The passenger in the cockpit at night observing navigation lights passing below in the opposite direction, and asking the captain if that was a flight returning to London? Oh no, he said, that is a flight going to New York that we are overtaking... !!
Americans mach 2 in space suit's. The British, in dinner suit's. THAT, was Concorde.
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Post by BritPete on Sept 30, 2023 21:58:54 GMT
Concorde - A great British (with some help from the French) triumph that the world (the Americans) would not buy into
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Post by BritPete on Sept 30, 2023 21:59:07 GMT
Great Pic by the way
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Post by comstar on Oct 1, 2023 3:30:17 GMT
Only thing that would ever come close would be a silver CB250N Deluxe.....used the same afterburners.
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Post by McLellan on Oct 1, 2023 8:13:31 GMT
Watched it, as a kid iconic
That sound OMG
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