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Another Title I was Contemplating: I miss the Concorde

Since I'm getting old, I'll explain what the Concorde is (was).  It was the fastest commercially available jet you could buy a ticket on.  It was a fascinating, impressive joint effort between the French and UK government (and I'm sure many others) and it worked flawlessly until a couple of accidents (at least one, which was definitely not engineering related - a piece of metal on the runway) grounded the plane, and ultimately the entire fleet got put out to pasture in November, 2023


It's key stat: You would arrive in London from New York before you left (given the time change). Pretty cool. :)

Never fear, though (I say that to myself) - it's coming back. This isn't an ad for Boom Supersonic, just a blog post from an excited AV Geek (that's AViation Geek, not Audio Visual, but Guity, I'm that too:).

Let's hope we're all flying double the speed of sound again, with zero sonic boom soon.

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