Concorde

So thank you for clarifying that.

The airship, the Hindenburg, really was the Concorde of its day.

It was a lot faster than the alternative at the time.

Steamships.

And I went looking for a book to give me the context, the background of those very early days.

And as you know, there were thousands of books about Spitfires and Concorde and jet engines.

But the early stuff was largely fiction.

seem to be largely forgotten and apparently i've recently learned disraeli said if you go looking for a book and you can't find it you should write it yourself and so that's that's what i've tried to do

OK.

So we had Concorde.

You know, it was announced in 62.

It first flew in 69.

But also, it was just expensive.

And I think the bigger thing was air travel had changed, right? Yeah.

With business, if you're going to spend that price on Concorde just to cut the time in half.

So instead of a seven hour trip from New York to London, you now have a three and a half hour trip to New York to London.

on.

Yeah, the Concorde 1972, I believe, is when it actually went into production.

It felt like I was born in 1979.

It felt like we're going to have this major innovations in the 80s, 90s and in 2000.

You just felt kind of boring and uninspiring.

Yeah.

I was very sad the day that the Concorde got decommissioned and was no longer flying.

Really, as a big, long-life nerd of aviation, it was very sad.

OK.

So we had Concorde.

You know, it was announced in 62.

It first flew in 69.

But also, it was just expensive.

And I think the bigger thing was air travel had changed, right? Yeah.

With business, if you're going to spend that price on Concorde just to cut the time in half, so instead of a seven-hour trip from New York to London, you now have a three-and-a-half-hour trip to New York to London, it's still long enough that you want to be comfortable.

And they never really improved the interiors that much.

on.

Yeah, the Concorde 1972, I believe, is when it actually went into production.

It felt like I was born in 1979.

It felt like we're going to have this major innovations in the 80s, 90s and in 2000.

It doesn't feel like you're flying that fast, does it? It looks a lot faster when you're watching it go by.

There's the Concorde.

It doesn't look like it's going all that fast until you realize that it's covering some serious ground.

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