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more about #supersonic more comments → tande04: A lot of those where ones we've heard of too. Sapphire after all was the MyTouch. Memphis was the one that basically looked like a MyTouch with a key... more » 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 » Elliuotatar: One wonders what the areodynamic properties of a plane with wings in the shape and locations of those shockwave clouds would be. more » Curves: Great pic. I know what supersonic means, but I am not really sure what I am seeing in the picture. It looks like the jet is tearing a hole, but I am... more » Jake712: Is it inverted? The plane I mean, is it upside down? more » bobdobbs: Gadget content, according to the Exif: Nikon D200, f22, 1/1000 shutter, ISO 200. more » The Most Interesting Man In the World: Great...now they can spread persistent lines of chemical-infused aerosol spray even faster. more » B.Zanetti: this would have been incredibly unfathomable about 100 years ago. damn. 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 » -
#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 » -
#imagecache
A Picture Is Worth About $138 Million
The quick lens of U.S. Navy sonar technician Ronald Dejarnett was able to capture this Air Force F-22 going supersonic over the Gulf of Alaska as the pilot did his best Top Gun flyby impression. [U.S. Navy] -
#airplanes
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 » -
#rocketcar
Rocket Car Will Hit 1000mph in 40 Seconds, Empty Bowels in About 5
Britain's Minister of Science Lord Drayson is announcing today the commencement of the Bloodhound rocket car project, which will propel current land speed record-holder and RAF Pilot Andy Green to speeds of over 1000mph. This is another step in the sporadically intense fight for the fastest car in the world, but the Minister has a half-hilarious, half-reasonable excuse for it: it'll get British students interested in taking advanced science classes. Nobody really cares about stuff like that because, well, 1000mph. More » -
#jetcar
800 Mph Jet Car Needs Just One Thing More: A Pilot
Think you've got what it takes to out-do Wing Commander Andy Green and the 763 mph land speed World-record set by Thrust SSC? Well, the team at North American Eagle may have a spot behind the controls for you: they've launched an open contest for the driver of their vehicle. The crazy red car looks a shade like an F-104 Starfighter, you say? Well, that's because it actually is one. With wheels. For going along the ground, faster than the speed of sound. More » -
#syntheticfuel
First Supersonic Flight with Synthetic Fuel Shows Air Force's True Treehugging Hippy Nature
This week the US Air Force achieved the first supersonic flight using alternative synthetic fuel, booming a B-1B Lancer over the White Sands Missile Range airspace in New Mexico without any problems. The supersonic strategic bomber, designed to deliver atomic weapons, will be able to start Armageddon at $30 to $50 less per barrel while helping the environment and without depending on foreign oil. You read that well, you commie hippie treehuggers: war is getting cheaper, and it will help climate change, nuclear winter excluded. Looking at its composition, however, the synthetic fuel is certainly not as harmless as other alternatives. More » -
