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. The Concorde, first launched in 1977, was a joint British-French governmental venture to create a commercial, passenger supersonic jet. It ran over budget (six…
