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Re:Concorde by idlewords on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:37AM (#12785784)
If you are interested in Concorde, this thread (which starts a little slowly) eventually ropes in some of the plane's original designers, pilots, and even a flight attendant. They talk about every aspect of the plane in the best aviation thread I've ever found online. It's amazing reading.

CAUTION: huge timesink hazard.

http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.html

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Re:Concorde by q-base on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:28AM (#12786482)
There are lots of strange abbreviations - BUT - Caution very much needed. Only a few pages in, but how extremely fascinating and interesting! Thanks a lot!
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Re:Concorde by anexprogrammer on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:36AM (#12786510)
You're unlikely to escape until you reach the end, and it's probably longer than when I found it some years ago. :p
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Re:Concorde by q-base on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @09:41AM (#12787844)
No there are many good hours of reading for sure. This made me laugh:

Ancient tale.

There's this SR-71 Blackbird stooging around Cuba on a top-secret mission, at FL500+ and Mach 2+.... when they get a call requesting them to change heading "because of traffic at your altitude". Traffic at THEIR altitude ??

Anyway, they comply, and shortly, yes, there's an Air France Concorde out of Caracas (Air France flew there in the early days) slowly sailing across their flight path.

Just imagine... two guys in bonedomes and full pressure suits, in a cramped cockpit, watching something like a hundred people in shirt sleeves or summer dresses, sipping their champagne and maybe just starting on their smoked salmon hors d'oeuvres, flying at their altitude and nearly their speed....

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Re:Concorde by v768 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @07:26AM (#12795582)
Something was quite wrong with their navigation if they where around Cuba between Caracas and Paris! ;-) Not even flying to New York would take you over Cuba.
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Re:Concorde by cycomachead on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:23AM (#12785912)
Caution warning is very necessary!

That thread is fascinating; thanks for sharing!

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