The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed

Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by idlewords on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:54PM (#42835622)

Here is a monster pilot forum thread on Concorde that ends up pulling in senior engineers, pilots, aerodynamicists and even a former flight attendant. They lovingly go over every detail of the plane's design and operation.

WARNING, serious temporal hazard. Do not click if you have work to do today or are supervising small children.

https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.htm...

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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by walterbell on Sunday January 26, 2025 @07:33PM (#42835939)

Long live old-school forums!

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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by Fizzadar on Monday January 27, 2025 @12:12AM (#42837646)

[delayed]

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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by anothertroll456 on Monday January 27, 2025 @12:00PM (#42843154)

That was amazing! Thank you.

Wait, idlewords is still around??

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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by bragr on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:40PM (#42844809)

>serious temporal hazard

Wow, you're not wrong. "I'll read just a little bit," I said. 2 hours later...

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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by dang on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:10PM (#42856576)

Discussed way back when (thank you!):

Epic Forum Thread on Concorde (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8277343 - Sept 2014 (49 comments)

We should have another HN thead about this once the Boom boom settles down.

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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by idlewords on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @12:08AM (#42861780)

There's also that thread about the Belgian couple who drove across the Congo:

https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ...

I call these kinds of forum threads "afternoon destroyers". It would be fun to weaponize them into a whole organized link page.

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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by tptacek on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @02:50AM (#42862594)

This is amazing. 10 minutes in I finally reached the entry labeled "Day 2" and closed the window out of self-defense. I'm going to send this link to annoying customer support clients to buy myself time.

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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by idlewords on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @11:46AM (#42867432)

Yeah, or create a CAPTCHA that is something like "what transmission components did this car need replaced before reaching Kinshasa" and hide your Tier 1 support reps behind it.

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