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more about #concorde more comments → Hello Mister Walrus: So, if there was a blog dedicated to the aviation industry, what would it be called? "Boeing Boeing"! Get it? HAHAHAHAAaaa..aaa... Ok, I'll go away now. more » ID Ron Burgundy: Man, I would pay good money to fly supersonic. And for me, it wouldn't be about getting to the destination faster. It would be the experience. I feel ... more » Guan Yang: According to legend, he also told Scottish audiences that the E stood for Écosse, the French word for Scotland. more » Invisiblemoose: "...to engineer the Airbus, the populist economy plane of our modern, boring times." Please don't write aviation articles. more » Kaiser-Machead: Nose goes up. Nose goes down. Nose goes up. Nose goes down. Nose goes up. Nose goes down. Nose goes up. Nose goes *thwap!* STOP THAT! more » bosskev: Does it also have a simulated mile high club feature? more » Kaiser-Machead: Hey, well at least there's the British Airways Concorde sitting by the Intrepid, though the engine cowlings are empty, and one of the powerplants is s... more » frigg: More Concordes please. more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Just because it was faster doesn't mean it was better technology. The space shuttle is newer than Rockets cone-shaped command modules, yet it was actu... more » Pessimippopotamus: "this puppy isn't fit for flight anyway, as it wasn't given the safety upgrade that the others got after that 2000 Paris crash" It worked fine (and sa... more » Hello Mister Walrus: Maybe we can convince Dubai investors to buy GM, Chysler, AIG, CitiGroup... That would solve a bunch of problems. more » Homerjay is utterly alone.: I wonder which one of them goes "BING!" more » Bos'un's Mate: Impressive, yeah, but no cup holders. more » Sora57: When I was a kid, Concorde could only mean one of two things: one was the supersonic jet and the other was grape jelly. Which reminds me of jelly donu... more » Hello Mister Walrus: Considering that an iPod Touch probably has more computer power than all the Concords combined, I am amazed that this thing could actually fly safely. more » -
#airplanes
The Supersonic Concorde Jet: Can We Go Back to 1979, Please?
Many of our Gizmodo '79 posts have illustrated just how far we've come in the past three decades, but in one important tech example, 1979 kicks 2009's ass: The Concorde Jet. More » -
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Now You Can Fly a Full-Sized Concorde (Simulator)
The Concorde fleet was grounded a long time ago but, if you want to pilot one, now you can thanks to the full simulator just restored at the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, UK. For free: More » -
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British Airways' Last Concorde May Become Dubai Novelty
It's like those sci-fi rich guys who collect everything including somebody's frozen head, only it's real: Dubai collectors—possibly the same ones turning the QE2 ocean liner into a hotel—are trying to buy BA's last Concorde. More » -
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Concorde's Knobstastic Cockpit Looks Like a Strategic Nuclear Bomber's
Damn, we missed the Concorde's 40th Anniversary yesterday. I love this amazing view of its cockpit. Looks like the cockpit in a military plane or spaceship rather than one in a passenger airliner. [Fast Company] -
