[HN Gopher] The Concorde was different from other aircraft in ma...
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       The Concorde was different from other aircraft in many ways
        
       Author : pr337h4m
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2024-01-11 21:17 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | baudaux wrote:
       | A great Great Britain - France collaboration
        
       | robert_yphsilon wrote:
       | I'd recommend reading Mike Bannister's book on the Concorde if
       | you are interested in its history and operational details:
       | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60032319-concorde
        
         | wt__ wrote:
         | Yep it's a superb book, definitely read/listen to it. (there's
         | a new book out by John Tye too, another Concorde pilot.)
         | 
         | And if you're in the UK, visit Brooklands Museum where you can
         | go on one where they've replicated some the noise, movement,
         | displays etc. in the passenger cabin.
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         | Also, only place in the world with a working Concorde flight
         | simulator.
         | 
         | Bannister supports the museum and occasionally gives lessons in
         | the flight simulator.
        
       | zokier wrote:
       | I think its nice illustration of simple-easy-complex-difficult
       | dichotomy. On one hand it appears super complex. But I suspect it
       | is also conceptually very simple; each switch, button, dial, and
       | indicator is most likely directly coupled to some one specific
       | functionality. In comparison in modern aircrafts, with their
       | sleek glass cockpits, lot of the same functionality might be
       | hidden somewhere ten levels deep in menu hell and might have all
       | sorts of weird modality etc built-in, so they are in some regards
       | conceptually more complex. In similar vein in Concorde the
       | controls and indicators were probably very directly coupled to
       | their respective elements, again being simple in that regard,
       | whereas in modern aircraft everything is done with impossibly
       | complex computer systems that pilots (or even engineers) would
       | have difficult time understanding.
        
       | andersrs wrote:
       | It's the perfect symbol of peak boomerist individualism and
       | failed nationalism. Burn as much fuel as you can. Make as much
       | noise as you can. Who cares about the atmosphere and trying to
       | live peacefully below it. It's an absolute engineering
       | masterpiece. Six times the fuel per mile as a 747, uh, anyway,
       | whatever it's loud and fast that's so cool!
        
         | wkat4242 wrote:
         | It was just a sign of the times. People just didn't realise the
         | impact as the negative effects hadn't started yet and the
         | benefits were huge in lifting most of Europe out of poverty.
         | 
         | Soon after the oil crisis happened though which was really the
         | start of climate and environmental awareness.
        
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