Which is pretty much exactly how I read Maxwells quote 
My two favorite things combined! This has made my morning.
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Ok well, that was awesome. Can’t lie.
Damn! Imagine being dropped straight into a tailslide!!
Never seen a heli towing a glider before.
Also, the 105 is such a cool heli!
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Uhhh… what? How does this happen?
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Well, you know… Wingtip hits vertical stab and a rapid unscheduled disassembly occurs.
Busy airport. The NTSB will find out if someone wasn’t where they were supposed to be and why.
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I’ve been loosely following this for a while and it’s good to see they are starting flight testing:
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I can see the reasons for a dorsal air intake but I don’t like it one bit.
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It’s to make very sure the driver is never ever tempted to do BFM with it, put more than three units of alpha on it and you get a flame-out!
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Me too, bring back the greatness of Concorde! The DC-10 was at fault!
But
I lost all enthusiasm when I read about...
… who the major investors are, and their motivation to put so much money into the development of a civil supersonic aircraft. I won’t link it here, but suffice to say the big money is not there for the cool factor.
Ehhhh. I get where you’re going but I would place way more blame on the Concorde design than the little part that started the chain of events. The DC-10 dropped a 17" x 1" metal strip during it’s takeoff roll. The Concorde was so known to be fragile that the French would FOD check the runway before every Concorde takeoff. The metal strip was either missed by the vehicle or the FOD pass was made before Continental took off. In any case it punctured a tire on the Concorde and the tire shed itself apart. If you’ve ever seen an airliner tire rated for 205+ knots you would think this is impossible. But it happened and a portion of the tire struck the bottom of the wing with enough force to rupture the fuel tank.
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Disclaimer: Despite my above-layman cyclic&collective skills, I am in no way a professional when it comes to aviation matters.
Anything I say about Concorde is based purely on passion and European patriotism, not on any facts or evidence.
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The Concorde was proud achievement for Europe and an iconic machine. Had the accident happened today with high incomes and relatively low fuel costs plus the high-end passenger screening available at select airports, I think the plane could have continued. I flew for Continental and we took a little heat from the French after the accident. So it still stings a little.
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I don’t know how credible John Hutchison is, or anything about the Concorde really, but I found this video fascinating when it was shown in a recurrent class a few years ago. I was sitting next to a French pilot who became rather angry about what was said, which caused a bit of an unfortunate scene in the classroom.
It was an amazing machine; it’s a shame that she was retired without a replacement.
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Great video actually!
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A lot in that video that I didn’t know.
The CRM part is especially interesting…
And a minor detail, but I didn’t know the passengers were going on the MS Deutschland.
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There’s another aspect of the accident that was explained in a second video, that I wasn’t able to find while I (briefly) had an opportunity to look for it last night. Supposedly the captain was very low time in the aircraft; something like 300 hours in less than a year of flying it.
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