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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should know from how Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.

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Speaker 1: There's Charles W Chuck Bryant, There's Jerry over there, Frank

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Speaker 1: the chairs in here, my thick tongue, Chuck's haircut, Chuck's beard,

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Speaker 1: Chuck's hat, Jerry's glasses, Jerry's on the phone, not knowing

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Speaker 1: what's going on. Everybody's right with the world. Oh, I've

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Speaker 1: been spelling this wrong all these years, by the way,

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Speaker 1: we've been spelling out like Flight of the Concords between

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Speaker 1: that and Concord with no E and all my writings

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Speaker 1: on the Concorde. Well you have that blog Concorde days. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, and I noticed there's no E on it,

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Speaker 1: and I spelled days day z as you did. Chuck.

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Speaker 1: We share a mind sometimes because I was about too

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Speaker 1: had I not been taking a sip of coffee, I

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Speaker 1: would have said that at the same time d a Z. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: I was waiting on you to take a sip so

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Speaker 1: I could steal that thanks to uh. In fact, I

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Speaker 1: tried to get a And we're gonna talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit later about the experience of flying on the the

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Speaker 1: famed and fabled Concord Jet airliner. That's what we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: But I tried to get in touch. I know a

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Speaker 1: person who made that trip. Uh, Justin's mom. I don't

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Speaker 1: know Justin, Well, imagine Justin but mother. Ok. Yeah, Justin's

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Speaker 1: mom carry from England, and she made a like since

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Speaker 1: I've known her, so I guess one of the one

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Speaker 1: of the last trips early two thousand's. Yeah, that would

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Speaker 1: have been I think it's two thousand three, October two

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Speaker 1: thousand three when it was decommissioned. Yeah. So I hit

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Speaker 1: her up on Facebook and it was like, Carrie, you know,

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Speaker 1: let me know what it was like. But she's in

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Speaker 1: a hurricane ravage North Carolina, so she's probably like buzz off, chuck,

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Speaker 1: everything all right with her. Yeah, Yeah, they're good. They

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Speaker 1: went inland. Shout out to all of our peeps who

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Speaker 1: were who had to go through Florence. Yeah, my sister

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Speaker 1: was there right in the middle of it. She okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: she's good. Trees down in the area, but like minimal

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Speaker 1: house damage and they're high on you know, they sit

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Speaker 1: higher up, so it's not like they're not flooded. That's

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Speaker 1: good because a lot of the area is yeah, and

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Speaker 1: she was also I mean, she said it's bad, but

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Speaker 1: she said the news is always just so sensationalized. She's like,

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Speaker 1: this is not like Hurricane Katrina or anything. Did you

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Speaker 1: see that UM clip of the Weather Channel? Dude? No,

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Speaker 1: I didn't, So what was he just like making stuff

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Speaker 1: like no, leaning into the wind like he was about

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Speaker 1: to be blown over? And then in the background, two

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Speaker 1: guys just strolled by and like shorts and flip flops,

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Speaker 1: not even I mean, like I don't even think their

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Speaker 1: hair was blowing. That's shameful. It is shameful, and I'm

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Speaker 1: so glad that that made the round because that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: It is, you know, especially for a weather event where

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Speaker 1: there's genuine fear and like you could incite panic. Like

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Speaker 1: I think that there's a lot of a lot wrong

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Speaker 1: with that. So let's shake on it. Okay, alright, So concords.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking concords today. I never got to fly

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Speaker 1: on one. You didn't, because go ahead and assume Jerry

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Speaker 1: didn't UM, And I don't know anybody who did, but

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Speaker 1: I would have loved to have. And I think I've

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Speaker 1: stepped on board one. There's one at the Smithsonian Air

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Speaker 1: and Space Museum by Dullus. I thought you met you

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Speaker 1: boarded a flight and they're like, sir, you're on the

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Speaker 1: wrong plane. Back when you could do that, Sir, you're

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Speaker 1: asleep right now. This is a drink. UM. I can't

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Speaker 1: remember if they actually let you step on it or not. Um.

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Speaker 1: Where was this Dulless Dullis Airport that the Smithsonian Air

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Speaker 1: and Space Museum? Is there one still there? Yes, it's um.

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Speaker 1: It's called the Stephen f Udvar Hazy Center. I just

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Speaker 1: call it the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum at Dulless.

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Speaker 1: It really nice. They have like a a stealth Um

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Speaker 1: black Hawk, No, not black Hawk, Blackbird SR. Seventy one Blackbird.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that those things are built so that

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Speaker 1: when they're on the ground, the plates that hold them

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Speaker 1: like that make up the plane, they have gaps in

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Speaker 1: between them. The reason is because that thing flies so

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Speaker 1: fast and gets so hot that the plates expand and

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Speaker 1: it becomes solid when it really counts. But on the ground,

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Speaker 1: apparently when it's taking off, it would just leak fuel

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Speaker 1: everywhere because it doesn't have like a solid plate to

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Speaker 1: it counts anyway. At the Seran Space Museum at Dullus,

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Speaker 1: which is frankly worth flying to Dullus just to go

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Speaker 1: to it's that good. Is a concorde I think it's

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Speaker 1: an Air France concorde Um, one of the last ones

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Speaker 1: and space museums. You you would love this one, man.

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Speaker 1: you don't have to be to appreciate this. Yeah, sure

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Speaker 1: for everybody. And there's a space shuttle there too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to check that out. Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 1: I used to go to the one in Pennsyl Pensacola,

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Speaker 1: the Naval Air Museum. They're growing up, and I just

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Speaker 1: thought it was cool, you know, walk around looking at planes.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna love this. Well, all right, so let's go

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Speaker 1: back in time to uh the swinging sixties in England. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: which was pretty swinging. It was, in fact very quickly.

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Speaker 1: I want to recommend that Michael Caine documentary my generation.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. It's not just about Michael Caine.

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Speaker 1: He's sort of like the host of what London was

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Speaker 1: like in like the late sixties, so pretty cool, the

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Speaker 1: whole Alfie thing, Alfie and the Rolling Stones and Marry

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Speaker 1: saying to the class establishment, yeah, we're young and also

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Speaker 1: super rich. Well eventually sure, but anyway, in the sixties,

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Speaker 1: this is the early sixties, so and quite as winging.

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Speaker 1: Then the British and the French government's got together and

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Speaker 1: they say, hey, let's uh, let's build a really fast

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Speaker 1: and the French, we're both building what's called the supersonic

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Speaker 1: only ones doing it either. It was the Soviets and

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Speaker 1: the Americans, the British and the French were all working

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Speaker 1: on their own supersonic transport plane at the same time,

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Speaker 1: which is weird until you think about jet. Jet airliners

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Speaker 1: jet airliners, which made them think, well, what goes even

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Speaker 1: faster than that? Supersonic planes that travel faster than the

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Speaker 1: speed of sound. So everybody was working on them at

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Speaker 1: a lot more like inspiration and ent, let's shoot for

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Speaker 1: the stars to burn. Sure, um, who cares about the

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Speaker 1: environment kind of thing. Yeah, but I I really get

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Speaker 1: sky project. That's impressive. So they built a couple of prototypes, um,

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Speaker 1: and then the very first flight of the Concorde was nine.

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Speaker 1: Together they made about twenty or they made twenty not

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Speaker 1: about this is actually something where they know the number.

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Speaker 1: Although I did see sixteen and fourteen production models, but

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Speaker 1: every place I've seen sixteen sixteen was in more places,

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Speaker 1: so not no production models. So like I guess prototypes

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Speaker 1: what did they do with the prototypes and his trash

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Speaker 1: or No, that was probably a production model. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: definitely was, because you got you want seat stains on

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Speaker 1: display and all their glory. This one smells like Gerard Depard.

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Speaker 1: Oh God, not that guy. Uh. Alright, so you talked

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Speaker 1: about the Soviets they built and this is hysterical. But

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Speaker 1: they built something called the t U one, the tupa left,

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Speaker 1: and they nicknamed it with a K, the Concorde Ski. Right.

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Speaker 1: That seems like a joke, I think, well, I think

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Speaker 1: the Brits and the French nicknamed it, and kind of

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Speaker 1: derisively too, because the Soviet what the Soviets came up

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Speaker 1: spying on the other group. I would say, yes, probably,

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Speaker 1: Or is it just that the Concorde follows these aerospace

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Speaker 1: Shaw Yeah. By this time, the French and the British

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Speaker 1: war out. I think Congress funded a report just saying

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Speaker 1: like how much is this singing and cost? By the way,

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Speaker 1: and um got back the bill and we're like, no,

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Speaker 1: we're not doing this anymore. And they scrapped the boeing,

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Speaker 1: That's supposedly why there aren't super sonic planes anymore. They're

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Speaker 1: going to be that their kin though, I think, well,

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Speaker 1: we would have to repeal a law in the United

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Speaker 1: States that you can't have overland sonic booms from commercial airlines,

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Speaker 1: and you got the same law in Europe. So there's

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Speaker 1: anymore because it's illegal to fly over I'm in a

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Speaker 1: supersonic plane. And that, from what I understand, is the

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Speaker 1: true reason why there's not concords any longer. Really just

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Speaker 1: the boom, not just the boom they're really expensive in

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Speaker 1: but the boom killed it and it's kept it from

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Speaker 1: coming back. Have you ever heard of sonic boom? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's that bad. It depends on the

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Speaker 1: sonic boom, right, I guess it depends on how big.

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Speaker 1: I guess you wouldn't want one, you know, eight times

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Speaker 1: you know, if if everybody was flying supersonic, think about

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Speaker 1: how many planes fly overhead of you know a place

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Speaker 1: that's a place where you live by the airport. Imagine

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Speaker 1: each one having a sonic boom. No, that would get old.

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Speaker 1: But I'm saying, like, if I'm at the beach and

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Speaker 1: there's like an F sixteen I hear the boom, I'm

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Speaker 1: kind of like, oh that's awesome. Yeah, you like toast

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Speaker 1: him with your beer. I love it when those guys

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Speaker 1: buzz the beach like sending reything tumbling. It's fun stuff.

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Speaker 1: Uh boy, should we take a break already? Sure? All right,

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Speaker 1: let's do it. We'll describe what these things were. I

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Speaker 1: right after this, sorry, Chuck, before we describe the concorde,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of excited about. We should say what happened

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Speaker 1: to the Soviets Um Concorde SKI, so it very publicly

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Speaker 1: um flamed out and crashed at a play's air show,

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Speaker 1: killed everybody on board and killed several I think eight

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Speaker 1: people on the ground at this air show, which air

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Speaker 1: shows are super dangerous to begin with, but apparently, and

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Speaker 1: I saw footage of it, the Soviet pilot was basically

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Speaker 1: flying a concorde like a stunt plane and overstressed it

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Speaker 1: and it came apart in the air and just crashed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's not a good idea, No, it's not. It seems

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Speaker 1: like I mean, these things were definitely agile, but they

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Speaker 1: that like it's one thing to design a wing that

424
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: can you know, cut through the air at supersonic speeds.

425
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 1: But you aren't gonna land or take off at supersonic speeds,

426
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 1: so that wing has to do double duty. It has

427
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,639
Speaker 1: to be able to keep you aloft at supersonic speeds.

428
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,160
Speaker 1: It also has to keep you aloft at subsonic speeds. So,

429
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 1: from what I understand, the wing on the Concorde was

430
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 1: like a triumph of engineering. Yeah. I don't know about you,

431
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: but I don't get scared to fly. But sometimes still

432
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 1: when I look out and I see the wing wobbling

433
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: and kind of flapping, I think, Man, I wish more

434
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: of that was connected to the plane. Yeah, it just

435
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 1: looks like more stable, it looks like it's trying to

436
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 1: flap its way. Yeah, that always is dis concerting to me.

437
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: I have to say, I have come so far with

438
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 1: fear of flying, and I've thanked her before and I'm

439
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: going to thank her again. Thank you to you me

440
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: for getting me over my fear of flying, because my

441
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: life would be so much worse if I were still

442
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: scared to fly. Well, yeah, she was probably like, dude,

443
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 1: I want to go places right with you. You're gonna

444
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: have to get over this, buddy. Yeah, I remember the

445
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: days when you were the what was it the dark

446
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: Night of the sky or the black Ghost and the sky. Oh,

447
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up, Joshua, were a blanket

448
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: completely over his head while you flew, so it could

449
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: be the black Ghost, of the red Ghost of the

450
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: gray ghosts, depended on the color of the blanket, Chuck.

451
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 1: To my great dismay, I found recently that they washed

452
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: those blankets maybe once every four flights, over once every

453
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: eight flights. Did you think they washed them between every flight?

454
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,479
Speaker 1: I thought it was new every time that I wouldn't

455
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: have put it over my head if I had known that,

456
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: Like God knows, who did wide into that blanket? Did

457
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: you know? I thought they were either single serve and

458
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: then they like donated them, or if they did rewatch

459
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,400
Speaker 1: them that it certainly was not every flight. I wish

460
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: you would have brought this up because I can still

461
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,160
Speaker 1: like taste old blankets in my mouth. Now I think

462
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: I'm hallucinating, but I can still taste it. It's the same.

463
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: It's real to me, all right. So I believe before

464
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,199
Speaker 1: we got sidetracked a minute ago, you were about to

465
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: say something about the nose tilting and moving. So what's

466
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: the deal there? Okay, So the angle of attack. If

467
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: a plane's flying straight, we'll call that a horizontal angle

468
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 1: of attack. I call it getting there. What is this

469
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: ninety degrees? What are you talking about? So what angle

470
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: is this? Well, you're not saying an angle, You're just

471
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 1: you just have your arm out straight. Okay. So let's

472
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: say a plane is flying completely horizontal parallel to the ground,

473
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: but it's flying forward, so it's if we pop it

474
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: up so the nose is up, it's flying at a

475
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: steep angle of attack. I think if it's coming down

476
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: really fast, it's also a steep angle of attack. But

477
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: the concorde is meant to come in so that its

478
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 1: nose is popped up way higher than like a seven

479
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: or forty seven when it lands. The angle of attack.

480
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: The problem is is because of that long needle like nose,

481
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: if you're a pilot, you can't see past that when

482
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 1: you're flying or taking off because the angle of attack

483
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: is so steep. So they actually designed the nose too

484
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 1: basically elevate downward to get out of their view when

485
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: the plane was taking off her landing, and then before

486
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: it went into sub or supersonic speeds, it would pop

487
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: into place so that it was a pointy needle. Yeah,

488
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: so it actually awesome. Yeah, it moved in flight and

489
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: you can and it also had a little visor on

490
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: it because you're going so fast too. I guess just

491
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: to break that wind over the window or that bird guy,

492
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: can you imagine what that thing did? The birds are

493
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: in into Yeah, no bird, No, like a Randy Johnson fastball. Yeah.

494
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 1: Do you ever see that Big Unit? Wow? Look at you.

495
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 1: It's like it's almost like when Emily throws out of

496
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: sports fact every now and then. That was alive in

497
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: America the nineties. Everybody knew who the Big Unit was. No,

498
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: that's true. She was talking one time about she said

499
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,679
Speaker 1: something about Eli Manning. It's like, how do you know

500
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: Eli Manning? She's like, I know the Manning guys. She's

501
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: like one of them wears the the orange outfit and

502
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,360
Speaker 1: when whears the blue outfit. At least she didn't say

503
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 1: costume costume outfit. You know who's got me and Emily

504
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: combined beat is hodgment. Oh for sports? Yeah, he's just

505
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: willfully ignorant of sports. Yeah, although he has gotten into

506
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: a thing here in his middle age where he will

507
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: go to a sporting event if someone offers him the chance,

508
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: because he just was almost more like a sociological experiment,

509
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: not like oh I want to go root for the

510
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: giants or whatever, just like, oh, well, this is fascinating

511
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: to observe. Count the number of hot dogs that are

512
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: eaten by Hodgman, No, just by everyone around him. Um,

513
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: all right, where were we the visor and killing birds?

514
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: So now let's talk about the engines. Okay, So those

515
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: engines on a concorde where there were four engines, two

516
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: on each wing. Yeah, Rolls Royce, how do you say

517
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: the other company taking a stay up at it? I

518
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: would say the s S silence. So I'm just gonna

519
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: go the Necma Olympus or Snecma. I would have gone

520
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: with Snecma. All right, maybe it's Snecma. It sounds like

521
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: a skin condition, it does. So the Rolls Royce Necma

522
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: engine we're capable of eighteen points seven tons of thrust each,

523
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: which I have reference. It does sound like a lot.

524
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: And if it doesn't sound like a lot to you,

525
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: prepare for this. The four engines aboard the concorde um

526
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: combined burned six thousand, seven hundred and seventy one gallons

527
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: of fuel per hour, and not only that. Yeah, that

528
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: sounds like a ton. It was. Well, supposedly it took

529
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: a ton of fuel per seit that was the rule

530
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: of thumb for the Concorde, Like literally a ton of

531
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 1: fuel per passage, that's what I read. Um. And the

532
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: the fuel they used was kerosene, which is so redneck

533
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: for like a British Airways air France joint thing. They

534
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: were burning kerosene hank Kill City. Yeah, well that was propane,

535
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: but still that's right. Um alright. So, like we said before, though,

536
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: these engines were attached directly to the underside of the wing.

537
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: There were no struts. I know, when you're in a

538
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: plane now and you just look at a normal jumbo jet,

539
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: it looks like that engine is attached to the wing,

540
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: but it's or part of the wing, but it actually

541
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: is attached with these metal poles called struts, right, which

542
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: is fine for sub sonic flight. Um. Again, though the

543
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: engines for the Concorde are basically part of the wing

544
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: so that they wouldn't come off U and then the

545
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: after burning that is probably the coolest part of this

546
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: whole thing to me. The Brits called it reheating or

547
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: having a wet engine. Yeah, but after burning is like

548
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: what an F sixteen will do. Uh. If you want

549
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: extra juice, you mix raw fuel, you know how you

550
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: see like the red flame coming out of the back

551
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: of an engine. You actually mix raw fuel with that

552
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: after it's been burned once, just to juice you even more. Yeah.

553
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: Like the whole reason they have um uh tests of

554
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: your cars emission systems is because you're you don't burn

555
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: all of the gas that you're trying to burn in

556
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,719
Speaker 1: your engine, some of it escaped, unburned or partially burned.

557
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: What the what an after burner engine does is it

558
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: captures that exhaust and puts it through a second burner

559
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: to get as much of that that what would have

560
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: been lost energy from being lost and just giving it

561
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: that extra boost. That is how it would reach supersonic speeds.

562
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: Um and the it was it would be so loud

563
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: in there apparently when the afterburners were on. But in

564
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: the in the British French Concord you didn't have to

565
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: have after burners on all the time. In the Soviet

566
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,719
Speaker 1: Concord Sky you had to have the afterburns on the

567
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: whole time, So it was like unodly loud in the

568
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: cabin the entire flight. That was another mark against it. Well,

569
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: that's crazy because afterburners are for like even in fighter jets,

570
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: it's like for minimal use. But when you're like on

571
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: the highway to the danger zone, that's when you kick

572
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: in the afterburners. Yeah, it's just like every now and

573
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: then to get more thrust. That's that is crazy. It's

574
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: only meant to be for short bursts. Right from what

575
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: I saw. They had to have the afterburners on the

576
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: whole time to maintain supersonic flight in the t U one.

577
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah, that's yeah. The concord sky that

578
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: is nuts. Well, no, wonder it didn't work. Um, should

579
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,479
Speaker 1: we take another break? Sure? All right, we'll talk more

580
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: about fuel and paint right after this things chop cho Sorry, alright,

581
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: fuel and paint. What's the deal with the fuel? Seventeen

582
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: fuel tanks, thirty almost thirty two gallons. Yeah, that's a

583
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: lot of fuel. Yeah, and I think it does. I

584
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: did see a ton of seat, which we'll find made

585
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: the concord really expensive to operate. Yeah, so that fuel

586
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: against kerosene, which just blows me away. Um, they they

587
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: had it designed really ingeniously because again, when you fly supersonic,

588
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: all sorts of different things happen, and one of the

589
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: things that happens is the balance of the plane. That

590
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: what you would call like the center of gravity shifts backwards.

591
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: And when that happens, like it's tough to imagine because

592
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: you think the opposite is going to happen. But imagine

593
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: you have like a little doul, a little stick balanced

594
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 1: on your finger. If you move your finger further back

595
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: along the dowell, you'll notice that the front of the

596
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 1: doull goes down because the center of gravity is further back.

597
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: It's balance is further back. So that would happen when

598
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: you hit supersonic speeds in the concorde. Yeah, so in

599
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: motion that's called the aerodynamic center. Um, I like center balance,

600
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: but that's well, I think that's the same thing, but

601
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: in motion, Okay, I might be wrong, and aerodynamically speaking,

602
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: uh yeah. So they had what they call they had

603
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: three auxiliary or trim fuel tanks. If you've ever been

604
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: on a boat, a boat has a way to trim

605
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: the the motor. You might have trim tabs on it,

606
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: or you might have a little button that makes your

607
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: boat motor go up and down and that's to keep

608
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: you know, that's how you don't you're not cruising along

609
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: through the water with your nose way out of the water.

610
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: You you trim that thing and then it'll lower the

611
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: nose a little bit. I had no idea that's what

612
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: that was. Yeah, trim. So it's the same thing in

613
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: this plane. But they used fuel that they would shift

614
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: backward and forward to level this thing out to find

615
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 1: its aerodynamic center balance, right, they would they would if

616
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: the if the aerodynamic balance center balance was that what

617
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: it was, aerodynamic center like, they could pump just as

618
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: much fuel as it took to these empty tanks to

619
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: balance the plane out and make it fly perpendicular or

620
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 1: horizontal parallel to the ground again like they wanted to.

621
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 1: And then when it was coming out of sub sonic speeds,

622
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: the opposite would happen, that the center would move towards

623
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: the front and the back would go up, so they

624
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: would pump gas back to the other tank and level

625
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: it out again. Really ingenious stuff. Yeah, I just think

626
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: of a see saw. Yeah. And how however many little

627
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: kids you would need to put on there to equalize me? Yeah,

628
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: because you're moving the full frum from different places Yeah,

629
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: that's just great, pretty cool man, way better than my

630
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: stupid Dowell on your finger idea. Uh, well, imagine me

631
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: on that doll, same thing, broken doll. Uh. And that's

632
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: when I mentioned earlier when it had that famous crash

633
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: in two thousand of its fuel because of you know,

634
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: they had to have it in a certain place for takeoff.

635
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: It was all concentrated right there where that fire was

636
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: so bad news. Yeah, that's just bad luck. And then

637
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: the paint was special paint even because crazily enough, this

638
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: thing got super hot, right, they came up with a white,

639
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: a shade of white that's like four times more reflective

640
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: than the white you see on no plane, which apparently

641
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: look at the concorde and blind you on the spot. Um. Yeah,

642
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: Presian white sounds pretty nice, man, um. But they would

643
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: do this to reflect heat, and they were they wanted

644
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: to reflect heat because they needed to get rid of

645
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: as much heat as they possibly could, because this thing

646
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: would get really hot at the speeds it was going,

647
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: just because of the friction it's going through the air,

648
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: the air molecules in the air, and the faster you go,

649
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: the harder you run into these air molecules. The hotter

650
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: things get and that the Concorde would actually you could

651
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: touch the windows from what I saw, and they would

652
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: be warm to the touch and the flight, whereas if

653
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,760
Speaker 1: you touch a window on a forty seven, you're freezing

654
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: because it's like negative sixty degrees fahrenheight out there. It

655
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: would get up to like two hundred, like positive two

656
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty degrees fahrenheight on this out the outside

657
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: of the nose in particular of the Concorde. And that's

658
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: despite the air temperature which would be even lower higher

659
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: up right right, like negative sixty. Yeah. So in the end,

660
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: the paint was about double twice as reflective as any

661
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: other jet. So that's solved that problem. Yeah pretty well.

662
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,280
Speaker 1: Uh all right, so I guess let's talk about flying

663
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: on this thing. Like we said, can only hold a

664
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: hundred people, right, a hundred wealthy, wealthy people. Yeah, Like

665
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: round trip was ten to twelve grand And I don't

666
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: know if we said this, Like the lure of the

667
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: Concord was not just that it was it looked cool

668
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: and it went like really fast. It cut the time

669
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: to get from London to New York or Paris to

670
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: New York virtually in half, which is huge, Like if

671
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: you've ever made that trip, it's just long enough to

672
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: be we started to get pretty uncomfortable. Um so half

673
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: the time, like three and a half hours basically from

674
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: London to New York. That was a really valuable thing

675
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: that people would be willing to pay for. And you

676
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: had to pay a lot to get on the Concorde.

677
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: I saw upwards of twelve thousand dollars round trip, which

678
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong, But if that's like nineteen

679
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: eighty money, that's like thirty two grand today. Yeah, and

680
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: that's for sitting in what amounts to like a bucket seat. Um.

681
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: Apparently the meals were very nice and the service was impeccable, sure,

682
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: and you felt special and the lounges were Did they

683
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: have lounges, Yeah, they had special Concorde lounges. See, I

684
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: didn't see anything but seats in a in a bathroom.

685
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: They well no, no, I'm sorry. At the airports they

686
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: had special lounges just for Concorde passengers. Yeah, they had

687
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: to gus see it up. I guess I got like

688
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: a foot massage. Yeah, but I mean, if you're talking

689
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: thirty two tho dollar round trip tickets, like you were

690
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: sitting there rubbing elbows with like the world's elite and celebrities,

691
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: And on one particular day in ve Um, one of

692
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: the people you might have been sitting next to was

693
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: none other than Phil Collins. That's right. Do you want

694
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: to tell them about Phil Collins in the concorde? Uh? Yeah,

695
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: all right, I remember because I was watching Live AID

696
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: at the time and as if Live AID wasn't a

697
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,959
Speaker 1: big enough awesome thing to do on a I can't remember.

698
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: It was Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Tell the kids what

699
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,399
Speaker 1: Live AID was. Oh, jeez, we should do a Live

700
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 1: AID episode. Yeah, we should. Live AID was a benefit concert,

701
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: and not the first benefit concert, but the first huge

702
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: um multicontinental benefit concert. There was a led Zeppelin reunion.

703
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: It was that big, the first ever back when they

704
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: hadn't been broken up for that long, which is crazy.

705
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: Um USA. For Africa, wasn't that what it was called? Uh?

706
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was. If Live AID, I'm

707
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: not sure if you say for Africa was different, but

708
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: it was. They're basically trying to alleviate the um the

709
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: droughts famines in in Western Africa, right, headed up by

710
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: Bob who very famously portrayed Pink in um The Wall

711
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: of the movie The Wall and was you've seen that right, Yeah,

712
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: but I didn't know that was Bob Geldo. Yeah, that's

713
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: Bob Geldo in the movie. The character's name is Pink.

714
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: Not in real life. Everyone I know that. Uh. And

715
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: he was the singer for you know, he had the

716
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: big hit for the boomtown Rats. No idea. I don't

717
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: know why. I don't like Mondays. No. I thought that

718
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: was an Elvis Costello song. No boomtown Rats. It sounds

719
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: just like Elvis Costello, doesn't it. It sort of does.

720
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: I never thought about that. I always thought that's who

721
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, okay, alright, So we got Bob Geldof

722
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: put on this huge concert to help fund to help

723
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: fund um this charity for Africa, which we've mentioned before

724
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 1: was actually like a terrible move. It went straight to

725
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: the war lords, remember, yeah, it did. I think in

726
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: our Famine's episode we talked about this good one. But um,

727
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:56,760
Speaker 1: it was such a huge concert that it took place

728
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: at the same time in Europe and North America. Yea,

729
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: Like this concert spanned the Atlantic wasn't it in Philly, Yes, Philly,

730
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 1: and I believe London, right, So that's the stage. It's

731
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: the hugest thing ever. That's where Queen very famously just

732
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: brought down the house at Wembley Stadium. Uh and one

733
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: of the great performances of all time. Many many performers

734
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: did so. Uh. And Phil Collins, as if that wasn't

735
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: big enough, was like, here's what I want to do.

736
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: I want to play on both continents. I want to

737
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: do both of these shows. So he did. He did

738
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 1: a show at Wembley Stadium. From what I understand, it

739
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: went pretty well, and then he went to the I

740
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 1: think he throw and hopped on in British Airways Concord

741
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: and flew from London to New York, took a helicopter

742
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: from New York to Philadelphia, and I think he went

743
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: on stage at one or two pm in London, and

744
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 1: he made its Philadelphia on time to take the stage

745
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: and I think two pm in Philadelphia. Time travel, yes,

746
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: because that was the thing. The concorde got you there

747
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: so fast that it was less than the time difference

748
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,800
Speaker 1: between the East Coast of the United States in London

749
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: or Paris, and so it was actually like a four

750
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: hour trip, but there's a five hour time difference, so

751
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 1: you could actually travel back in time figuratively speaking with

752
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: the concorde. And that's what Phil Collins did. So he

753
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: went off a stage in London and then came on

754
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: stage in Philadelphia. It was pretty thanks to the Concorde.

755
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: It was amazing. And then they had a camera crew

756
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: following him and stuff. I remember seeing like he's at

757
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: the airport now and he's getting on the helicopter. It

758
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: was a big deal. Yeah, and apparently Share was on

759
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: the concorde. It was Share with Phil Collins and it's like, hey,

760
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: what's going on? And Phil Collins like, oh, we got

761
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: this live AID thing. She's like what is that? And

762
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: he told me. She was like do you think I

763
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: could come? And he's like, yeah, I sure, just show up.

764
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if she did show up or not,

765
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: but she didn't know about Live ABE. Maybe she joined him.

766
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: She was probably like, why wasn't I invited? Kind I

767
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: would say that if I were Shared, well, wrong with me.

768
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: She would have been like snap out of it to

769
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: Bob Gelda. Alright, so Phil Collins is on this plane. Um,

770
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: through his eyes, this is what it looks like. You

771
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:13,919
Speaker 1: take off, nose down thirty eight thousand pounds of thrust

772
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: to get you going from zero to two miles per

773
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: hour in three seconds. That is mind boggling. Yeah. Like

774
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: you feel a little bit of like push you back

775
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: in your seat on a regular plane, but not much.

776
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: This is like you're sitting normally. You're back in your

777
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: seat like at the snap of a finger from what

778
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,720
Speaker 1: I gather. Okay, so Phil collins face is like smashed

779
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: off under the seat behind him, and he's like, what

780
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 1: have I done? All right? I should have never left Genesis.

781
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I don't know that he

782
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: left Genesis now, he just did his own thing. Yeah,

783
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: that's right, great solo career. That's a good documentary too.

784
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: There was a Genesis stock out a couple of years ago. Yeah,

785
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 1: like it covers starts with the Peter Gabriel years. That's

786
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: good stuff. All right. So you're back in your seat.

787
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: Phil Collins is drinking his um vodka cranberry slashing all

788
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: over his face. They reached cruising altitude very fast and

789
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: past the sound barrier. The noses up now and inside.

790
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: This is very clever. They had a displace on on

791
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: what mock you were flying so everyone could see, Yeah,

792
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: mock and altitude pretty cool. Yeah, and again like the

793
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:27,240
Speaker 1: the in flight service was just bar none like the cutler.

794
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: He was amazing. The food was amazing, the wine on

795
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: board was amazing, the service was amazing. Like when you

796
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,959
Speaker 1: were on the Concorde, apparently they would you would leave

797
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 1: with a signed certificate saying that you've been on the Concorde.

798
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Like that's how important it was, even

799
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: like the super rich and famous and um, the whole

800
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: presumption was is that the super rich and famous would

801
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: pay to go on this flight and everybody else would

802
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: just fly sub sonic. Um. But it was just too

803
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: expensive even for the super rich and famous. Yeah, and

804
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: but we didn't mention even before where you took off.

805
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: I think the pilots made a bit of a show

806
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: of it, and they told everyone, like, prepare yourself. What

807
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: you're about to experience is not like a regular flight.

808
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,879
Speaker 1: You're gonna be pushed back into your seats. We're gonna

809
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: be going this fast this soon. And everyone's getting all

810
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: jazzed up, you know, because like, hey, this is awesome.

811
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: We're all super rich and we're all going super fast. Uh.

812
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: Then once you get up there and you look out

813
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 1: the window, what do you see? Apparently you can see

814
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: the curvature of earth. That's crazy. There would not be

815
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: any flat earther's had everybody written on the concorde. If

816
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: there were still around, right, you'd be like, no, it's around.

817
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: And apparently you don't really feel the speed um even

818
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: when you're hitting. Yeah, like even when you hit the

819
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: speed of sound, it doesn't feel much different. Although I

820
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: did see it was very noisy in the plane because

821
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: of the afterburners. Yeah, I mean this one dude, I

822
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 1: got a bunch of quotes from people. He said it

823
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,240
Speaker 1: was more like office chairs, bucket seeds, very small windows,

824
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: very noisy, extremely noisy. But I challenge anybody it didn't

825
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: have a smile from ear to ear when they got

826
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: on it, it looked like the seats looked like the

827
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: bucket seats of a Ferrari. Yeah, like an expensive sports car.

828
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: They were a polster that way there. They looked like

829
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 1: a sports car, very nice sports car seats, but it

830
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 1: was a plane fall of them. It was really cool looking. Yeah.

831
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: This one guy, Fred Finn, international businessman, apparently took seven

832
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen flights on the Concorde. I saw that

833
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 1: he holds the record, right, he's got to Yeah, he

834
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: has seven eighteen signed certificates that he was on the

835
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,359
Speaker 1: concod So they definitely made it special for that price tag.

836
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: About two and a half million people flew flights on

837
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 1: the Concords. That's a lot for how expensive it was,

838
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: and the fact that it really just ran from ninety

839
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 1: two thou three. Yeah, that's a lot of that's a

840
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: lot of people. But it just like you said, it

841
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: wasn't affordable, right, No, So from the outset, apparently the

842
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: Brits were like, oh my god, what have we gotten

843
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: ourselves into? And I saw it compared to the Brexit

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Speaker 1: of the time, that the politicians all knew that this

845
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 1: was a terrible idea. It was just a huge money

846
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: was a huge money pit, but they pretended in public

847
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Speaker 1: like it was going to do great things for Britain.

848
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Speaker 1: And I think this is right before the European Union started,

849
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: and I believe the Concorde actually was probably one of

850
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Speaker 1: those projects that helped foster the European Union at the time,

851
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:29,879
Speaker 1: because Europe was not that many decades away from being

852
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 1: ravaged by World War Two, and again the Marshall Plan

853
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: came along. And by the way, I have to say,

854
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: in the Think Tanks episode, apparently I said that the

855
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: Marshall Plan was based on the New Deal, which is

856
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 1: totally wrong, and I know it's wrong. But some listener

857
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 1: wrote in and said you were really wrong, and I

858
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: was like, I didn't say that, and apparently I did,

859
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 1: but I know that that's not the case. But the

860
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe and at the same time it

861
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: brought Europe together and helped foster the EU. But I

862
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: think the Concorde was a project that helped bring the

863
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 1: EU along, but it was a money losing project and

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00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: the reason the Brits stayed in it was because they

865
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: were afraid the French were going to sue them for

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00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:12,359
Speaker 1: even more money if they backed out. I love history, man, yeah,

867
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Speaker 1: and I think I think. I think that was a

868
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: money suck, even at full capacity, but like when you

869
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: started having like half full flights, we only have fifty

870
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: people on a plane. Um, it was just blowing through money.

871
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: Plus also, nowadays, if if the Concorde were still around,

872
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 1: there would be huge issues with it because it burned

873
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: so much gas kerosene, sure, but it just burned through

874
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: so much and created so much greenhouse gas. It was

875
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 1: just such a just a polluting monster that if we

876
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: had gone just too supersonic planes, that would be an

877
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 1: issue by now for sure. But yes, expense the sound,

878
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:57,320
Speaker 1: the sonic boom, um definitely got rid of it. But

879
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: I think also um, British Airways and Air France the

880
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: only reason they took these planes on it because they

881
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 1: got them for free from their governments. Um. Yeah, they

882
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: bought like boughtom for a dollar or something. And there

883
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: was this there was this point where, you know, in

884
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: the seventies and I think again in like the early nineties,

885
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: where it really seemed like supersonic passenger travel was this

886
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 1: nut that we were going to crack, and it just

887
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: went away. And the reason why, like Reagan actually wanted

888
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 1: NASA to work on a transport plane that basically went suborbital.

889
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: I could get you to Tokyo in two hours. It

890
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: is crazy, but it's basically what Elon Musk is talking

891
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: about with SpaceX. I think he says he could get

892
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,240
Speaker 1: you from New York to Tokyo in thirty nine minutes.

893
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: But again, the environmental impacts just the wastefulness of the fuel.

894
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 1: It's just mind boggling how how inefficient it actually is. Yeah,

895
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: and there's something about building something just for the super

896
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 1: rich that it's not like it's not a great time

897
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 1: for that. I think he said he could do it

898
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: for about more than an economy class ticket on a

899
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: plane though, Yeah, which would be pretty amazing because he's

900
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: a magician. He is. Did you see the dear Moon?

901
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: Announced me last night. Oh dude, he's building a rocket

902
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: that it's a it's a transport like passenger rocket that

903
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 1: will go past the moon, like it's a tourist um

904
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: trip past the moon. And this Japanese artist, now he's

905
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: a Japanese entrepreneur, I can't remember his name. Um, he

906
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 1: bought the whole he bought all the seats, and he

907
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: is going to over the next like five years, I

908
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: think before the flight, invite an artist from like nine

909
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: different fields to come with them. Uh, just on the

910
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: premise that they go back and make something that that

911
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: they were inspired to make from the trip. It's like

912
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: his gift to humanity. Um, this art project that he's

913
00:51:55,840 --> 00:52:00,919
Speaker 1: basically kind of clumping onto. Elon Musk's BFR rocket. Well, sir,

914
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: I think a podcast eloquently describing that trip would be

915
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:11,919
Speaker 1: a great contribution. So podcasting is in art. Yeah, why

916
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: not choose the most downloaded podcast in iTunes history to

917
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, he'll be like, okay, sure, but you

918
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,359
Speaker 1: guys have to choose which one goes. Oh you could go, Oh,

919
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 1: we'd flip a coin. We'd leave it to UM to

920
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,479
Speaker 1: Javier bar down to this sign who gets the plug

921
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: through the head. Uh. So we had the famous wreck

922
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: in two thousand and then finally in April two thousand three,

923
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: UM Air France president Jean Cyril Spinetta said, one, we're

924
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: shutting it down. And then I think on June twelve

925
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: they delivered to Dullest that that one Air and Space Museum,

926
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: that very first production Concorde that was delivered to Air

927
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 1: France and UM. I believe October two thousand three was

928
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: must have been the last British Airways flight. Then yeah,

929
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: I guess they stuck around a little bit longer, you know,

930
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: the Brits. Uh. You can also go to the Aerospace

931
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,439
Speaker 1: Bristol Museum. That one. You can definitely get on board

932
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: really wander around. Yeah. I saw a video of that

933
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: in France. The Museum Air in Space Paris Leborge uh

934
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum in New York apparently

935
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: has one that has a space shuttle too. Auto and

936
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: Technic Museum Sunshine in Germany. In the Museum of Flight

937
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: in Seattle, I think has one nice all worth visiting

938
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: for sure. It's net and you don't have to be

939
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: like an aviation buff. You can just be inspired by

940
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Yeah, I can't wait to hear

941
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: back from Carrie and see her firsthand insight. Maybe I'll

942
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: read that as a listener mail. Oh, that's a good idea.

943
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: She'll probably say the same thing, which is like so loud,

944
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: so loud and cramped, and there were a bunch of

945
00:53:56,120 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: snobs on board. Phil Collins was crying so so scary it. Uh, Okay,

946
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: Well that's Concords and it's done for now. Who knows,

947
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 1: maybe they'll make a comeback and we'll do a follow up, agreed. Uh.

948
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: If you want to know more about Concords, type that.

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Speaker 1: And since I said that, it's time for listener mate,

951
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this one one I found in a

952
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: stack that I meant to read a while ago. So sorry.

953
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: Sorry to Stephen if you've been waiting on this. Hello,

954
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Speaker 1: my name is Stefan. I'm twenty three years old and

955
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956
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Speaker 1: because I want to improve my English for my bachelor's degree.

957
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959
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961
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962
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964
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965
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966
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970
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971
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972
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Speaker 1: Stephen Stephen from Stott I love it man, Thank you, Stephen.

973
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 1: That's really awesome. That was great. It was really well written. Yeah,

974
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Speaker 1: you're doing great with your English. Coherent everything about it

975
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Speaker 1: couldn't have done anybody on myself. Yep, we understood that

976
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Speaker 1: more than we understand Jerry on most days. Uh. If

977
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Speaker 1: you want to get in touch with this like Stefan

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Speaker 1: did and let us know how great we are and

979
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981
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