Interesting you suggest that. I’ve flown on airlines that have a nose mounted camera with a channel on the inflight entertainment system so you can watch landings, (hopefully not watch your own crash!). It’s not far fetched that designers could mount cameras on different areas of the aircraft for passengers to switch…

Why do you have a set of fuch’s on your 64? The chrome bumbers aren’t 64 US spec either. Just curious-not critical. Nice colour.

People like windows - blended wings unless they make big freaking glass cover sunroof’s don’t allow that. The Boeing blended Wing was shot down by every airline that saw the design.

Although... Recent new designs have been able to mitigate the sound reaching the ground now.

You will get to the same point. Spending money either way still comes out of a nations GNP. Your argument that the Boeing SST was a ‘privately funded’ effort is false. Each of the 2707's was to be sold at a loss. This loss was directly tied to the financial support of the US Government. R&D, plus materials were to be…

Well there will always be something I left out due to space and having to get to bed! You are correct in that the US project was on much larger scale, both size, speed and concept. A lot of money was wasted on the swing wing concept that eventually was found unworkable with the current technology. Lots of data was at…

The 747 does not come into play here as I was referring to the Concorde/Boeing 2707 project. Check the historical exchange rates again - you’ll see that in 1969 the US dollar was worth TWICE that of the pound. In fact the UK GNP was horrible in that era. Now there is no argument that both France and the UK spend a far…

Good points!

I prefer to read books by authors that engineered and or flew the aircraft in question instead of unnamed internet authors. For example: On page 206 of Brian Calverts’s book, ‘Flying Concorde’ he states that over 24 years of flying, that both airlines fleets suffered fifty-seven blow outs of tires (tyres) twelve of…

What you say is true about their economy and the how and why they financed the aircraft and their motivation for building it - but is there an argument that they didn’t get a magnificent aircraft into the air?

The TU-144D crash in Paris was caused by a French Air Force jet shaddowing it taking photo’s of the canards when the Tu-144 pulled up sharply and almost collided with the Mirage. It then didn’t have enough altitude to recover from the push over maneuver at lower then expect speed and broke up during the panic pull…

Are you mad or just misinformed?

“Can you imagine how a turbo R383 could have completely changed the world of sports car racing if they’d brought it to the US and went head to head with Porsche in Can Am?”

No it doesn’t. It gets you a summons and one week on the spot driving ban (in some Provinces), gets the car flatbeded/impounded (surety put up to get the car back) and after conviction - it gets you a huge fine. Jail is mainly used where personal injury or death occurs with or without DWI or can be used in a Careless…

My friend Laurence Yap was a co-driver in a Cayenne on the Trans Siberian rally that rolled end over end so violently that it ripped the engine out of the chassis with it rolling down a hill 20 feet away. Both driver and passenger were shaken but not stirred and the occupant compartment held up quite well. They never…

Thats funny! I have a chrome Zippo lighter I bought in Stuttgart that says, ‘Where the hell is Ausfahrt’! :)

Your problem is the route...

She didn’t want the Swedish pay driving kid any longer and the Swedish group that own a controlling portion of the company decided - *she* had to go because this upset ‘Daddy’. The Honda deal was considered too long term for this group - they wanted some results so they can off load the company for a quick return.…

‘Tesla: ‘Sir, its like a buffet table in that you have gone back to the table too many times and thats unfair to all the other eaters’.

Ahh, no it isn’t.