解密灾难 Unlocking Disaster（联合航空811号班机事故）竞速风暴 Racing the Storm（美国航空1420号班机）机...
Let’s test the power of an idea, because British Airways flew Concorde too. Couldn’t they try it? What images does the name of BA’s base, London, evoke? Not a scent, surely, nor romance. Maybe energy, like New York? And Burberry may be famous, but isn’t up there with Hermès...
The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first supersonic transport plane (SST) to take flight, preceding the Concorde by two months (see next). The TU-144 begins service in 1975 and makes its last commercial flight in 1978. The United States funds its own SST project in the 1960...
the invention of the jet engine had a far more significant social effect on the world through commercial aviation than through its military counterpart. Commercial jet aircraft have revolutionized world travel, opening up every corner of the world not just to theaffluentbut to the ordinary citizens...
a prestige flagship airliner on the transatlantic routes for bothAir FranceandBritish Airways PLC, but its noise and operating expense limited its service. Only 14 went into service, with the last of them being retired in 2003; the Concorde proved a technical miracle but an economic disaster. ...
解密灾难 Unlocking Disaster（联合航空811号班机事故）竞速风暴 Racing the Storm（美国航空1420号班机）机...