GTP Alternative Cool Wall: 1965-1979 Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde

1965-1979 Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde

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Turtle
That sounds like that could be the name of a really bad Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction.
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Or a band.

Or, as I just found out, a really strange and confusing song by Steel Panther that actually has a pretty good sound to it.
 
Amazing engineering achievement. With that much power how can it not be sub zero.
 
SagarisGTB
Hey, you can't argue with facts! No need for red herrings.

Have to say, I always liked Russian birds. Of all kinds. :D
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Yeah I always loved hand welded SMAW aircraft as well, nothing says pinnicale of aviation like Mikhail doing beads all day for USSR and making sure they don't crack after each take off.
 
SagarisGTB
What are you on about? You sound like a butt-hurt nationalist.
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You sound like a rude passive aggressive on an ego trip. Nationalist of what? France? Strange...

Perhaps do some research on Russian jets and aircraft in general during the Soviet era. Top planes like the MIG-25 were hand welded and built crudely, the Tu was no different having monolithic large pieces molded and thus creating vast metallurgical inconsistencies that would then create stress fissures/cracks that would compromise the airframe, then they found a way to minimize this but still have slight cracks that could stand flight and then be repaired (via welding or other methods) after.

From construction to flight performance and overall history this is the better SST even if not the fastest SST by a slight margin. I saw your posts as jokes but still wanted to respond if that warrants your usual angry retort so be it.
 
@LMSCorvetteGT2 You interpreted correctly that my posts were tongue-in-cheek, but why the scathing attack on the troubled Tupolev? It's obvious the Concorde was the better plane. But it's possible to like both. I like both. I also like both vanilla and chocolate. I like prog and punk. I like blue and red. I just don't see why you had to attack the poor Tu-144.
 
SagarisGTB
@LMSCorvetteGT2 You interpreted correctly that my posts were tongue-in-cheek, but why the scathing attack on the troubled Tupolev? It's obvious the Concorde was the better plane. But it's possible to like both. I like both. I also like both vanilla and chocolate. I like prog and punk. I like blue and red. I just don't see why you had to attack the poor Tu-144.
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Scathing? Honest indeed, but scathing? Never. I too like both Planes but this isn't a like column so I find it hard to see the Tu being more cool, when it did a better job at failing. I too like Prog and punk as well as chocolate and vanilla, so I see this as progress.
 
Boys, boys... let's not fight here about Tupelov.

I've never had the pleasure, but my mother relates how she once rode a Tupelov airliner somewhere in China after it opened up to travelers..

And she said, and I quote: Worst.Flight.Ever.
 
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Imagine joining the Mile High Club in this.

Imagine it: supersonic sex.

Sub-zero.
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The things you could do at super cruise just to say you'd done it faster than the speed of sound!

Walk, throw a ball, pee....
 
Sub-zero.

The design is timeless for me, from the outside at least, it looks as though it could've been designed yesterday, Not almost 50 years ago.

It will always be an icon.

A pic of it with a car I think is also sub zero and timeless.
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