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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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COMMEMORATION OF AN ERA:

60 years ago and after 10 earlier years of research, construction began on the world's first, and only supersonic passenger airliner, the Concorde.

Construction: British Aerospace and British Aircraft Corporation. Building of the first fleet of Concordes began in 1964.
First flight: 1968. The same year that Apollo astronauts made history by landing on the Moon.
Top speed and altitude: Mach 2.0 at 60,000 feet. Twice the speed of sound, almost twice the altitude at which normal jet airliners cruise at max, and almost 1/5th of the Karman Line which establishes the boundary between the exosphere and true interplanetary space. It is the highest altitude a conventional turbojet engine can operate at and coupled with speed for air intake, produce sustained combustion. Anything higher would require ramjets or liquid oxidizer injection systems.

Final flight: October, 2003.

Built with nothing but slide rules, graph paper, and No. 2 pencils...



BEST COMMENT FROM THAT VIDEO:

"I flew Concorde in 1989 from LHR to JKF. I missed my TWA 747 flight, couldn't wait for the next day flight. One of the best decisions I've ever made. Expensive but no one in the history of my family has ever flown so fast or high as I. They may have been stronger, smarter or richer than I but this honour was mine. The walls of the plane are heated. You look out the window and see no wing while it is a delta form. The moon is round but not smooth due to crater impacts so it is spikey looking above the atmosphere. I never lost the sight of the sun. The best for last is that although Concorde took off 3 hours later than the TWA 747, I was sitting and drinking a beer in my apartment 2 hours before the flight I missed was due to land."

FULL FLIGHT FROM TAKEOFF TO LAND:




TOUR OF CONCORDE COCKPIT: All manual instruments and controls. No LCD screen smart avionics. Pilots must be instinctive at mathematics and precise calculations:



View from max altitude of 60,000 feet:

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