Byline: ADRIAN SHAWTHIS is the "hole" that was torn out of Concorde as it flew at 45,000ft at 1,200mph.A piece of rudder was torn from the supersonic jet's tail fin on a BA flight from London to New York 10 days ago.Crew were not aware of the problem until landing and ...
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.
We visited Boom's hangar in Mojave, California, to learn about what it takes to resurrect the dream of blisteringly fast intercontinental air travel, more than 20 years after the retirement of the Concorde supersonic jetliner. At the time of writing, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator ...
In the climactic Battle of the Bands, the Blues Brothers magically transform into dancing zombies, which is a terrible scene but does at least serve as a nice metaphor for the lifelessness of this whole misguided enterprise. 12. The Concorde... Airport ’79 (1979) Universal 12. The ...
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...
Qantas expects to have all 29 QantasLink A220s by 2027. Hudson also hinted the A220 would feature on the Qantas schedule for thenew Western Sydney airportdue to open in late 2026, describing the nimbly efficient jet as as “a perfect aircraft for Western Sydney.” ...
Interestingly, the first jet to be delivered was produced in December 2023, while the second jet to be delivered was produced in June 2021, but experienced significant delays. The delivery schedule beyond these two jets will be gradual, and it’ll be 2027 at the earliest before all 12 planes...
Not all technology is created equal: there is a difference between Pong and the Concorde or, less glibly, between Intel and Pets.com. Microprocessing represents real technological development, peddling pet food on-line, less so. Conversely, things that may be dismissed as fake technologies (Amazo...
Took a stroll down the Champs, across the Place de la Concorde with thousands of Aussies and Yanks to the Louvre. That glass pyramid amazes me. Spent hours strolling through hall after hall of their amazing collection of artefacts and paintings – and of course had to check out the Mona ...
We visited Boom's hangar in Mojave, California, to learn about what it takes to resurrect the dream of blisteringly fast intercontinental air travel, more than 20 years after the retirement of the Concorde supersonic jetliner. At the time of writing, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator ...