I think there are only a few airlines with the proper mounting hardware spec'd on their 747s - South African and Qantas, particularly, but it used to be more common than it is now. I hadn't realised the 707s could do it too, though! There's a fairing over the engine core and the fan is removed from the front (you can see the fairing there too) - other than that it's a short, mostly empty cylinder, so I guess there's no major gain.
Vmax retweeted this awesome shot. My parents went on this and commented on being able to see the curvature of the earth. Pity it's no more! (Concorde, that is. I'm pretty sure the curvature is still there) The only photo of Concorde flying at Mach 2 taken by Adrian Meredith from a Tornado over Irish Sea in April 1985. Image Unavailable, Please Login
The graphics work is super tops in this visualisation of movements around Sydney during Qantas' final 767 arrival 13ish months ago. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybQ_BT4vLok[/ame]
Concorde is so fast it bends space-time I remember reading somewhere that there was a period (pre-Tornado, presumably) where the RAF didn't have anything that could catch it. F-4 wouldn't, but the Lightning must have been close, albeit very briefly before turning around to refuel...
Gonna take a few prepositioned tankers to drag a Pig all the way across the Atlantic at Mach 2! (and, um, also some magical tankers that can do Mach 2... KC-Concorde perhaps?)
Yeah true, at full tilt the pigs could empty the 33,000 lbs in 10 minutes ............ but they'd be a long way ahead when they ran out of fuel
I do appreciate a grammar obsessive I've been hiring graduates from universities across Aus every year for about 20 years, I've really noticed the decline in basic communication skills over that time. These days you can have a masters degree and not know how to structure or punctuate a sentence.
I somewhat regularly see things written by university students studying to become teachers. The children they'll eventually be qualified to teach are going to have an awfully rough time
On the topic of Concorde, yesterday was the 40th anniversary of her first revenue flight: Concorde Celebrates a 40-Year Milestone - AirlineReporter : AirlineReporter Concorde Enters Service 40 Years Ago Today ? Flightradar24 Blog I've been on board three and seen a fourth, but sadly all were post-retirement Still wish I'd found a way to get onto a flight when they were available!
And don't you just love the way these tossers spew out a million words and don't really say anything useful.
