On this day, Concorde, the iconic supersonic airliner, took its first commercial flights. Departing simultaneously from London's Heathrow Airport and France's Orly Airport, the two flights were bound for Bahrain and Rio de Janeiro, respectively. Although the Concorde could carry passengers across ...
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) This film is the last of the 'Airport' genre which stars George Kennedy again in his aviation-disaster struck role as Joe Patroni who has to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alp...
most pilots and passengers won’t recognize the exact moment their aircraft transitions to supersonic speed. In fact, passengers on Concorde may not have known they broke the sound barrier at the very instant it happened.
Concept OverviewTheSunk Cost Fallacy, also known as the Concorde Fallacy or Escalation of Commitment, is a cognitive bias that occurs when individuals or organizations continue to invest resources (time, money, effort) into a project or decision despite evidence that it is unlikely to be successful...
③These include the world’s first jet-powered civil airliner: The Comet. ①一战中发明的新型飞机为民用飞机奠定了基础。1919 年一战中的一架轰炸机被改装并飞跃了大西洋。1924 年第一个民用航空公司,皇家航空公司开业。②二战时的政府设计了一系列民用飞机的型号,以便使战时的生产迅速转型。③世界上第一架装...