Anyone here fly the Concorde?

[RgrF]

Except for that time the bus hits a car. Pilots don't get to walk away from hitting anything.

[AAA]

NOW I get it.

You guys needed the sentence to say fly as a passenger or fly ON the Concorde. "Fly the friendly skies" did not imply everyone got to PILOT the friendly skies. Get with the language, you knuckleheads!!

I meant what I said. You guys comprehend wrong.

[AAA]

[quote freeradical]Airplane pilots are just glorified bus drivers.
Or worse. My dorm was the closest to the university's airport, where a lot of the pilot trainees lived. I would not trust a BUS driven by some of those weirdos. Now, the AvTech guys were pretty well grounded gearhead types.

[macphanatic]

"Fly the Friendly Skies" had a completely different meaning or at least that's how it came across.

[AAA]

different as in "Please come pilot our planes"?

[OWC Jamie]

[Lux Interior]

There is one mounted at the entrance to De Gaulle. Very small plane. Though not as small as the one in billb's pic.

[spearmint]

[quote freeradical]Airplane pilots are just glorified bus drivers.
Bus Drivers can't drink and drive.

http://www.courttv.com/trials/pilots/052405_ctv.html

[AAA]

[quote billb]
Paul Bunyon Airlines?

[Zoidberg]

[quote spearmint]Amazing what a leap in technology so long ago and now grounded forever.New faster and better planes? No. Instead we get that horrifying Airbus A380 with 550 seats and potentially 850 which is no faster than the original jet airliners in 1952, the BOAC Dehavilland Comets.
I was just thinking that, reading an article about the Airbus in Air & Space. Still, it's moving more people at a time; the trade-off is speed.

What about progress on the car? A Model T got 25 mpg; the average auto is still below or at that, with a few exceptions.

An old article on that: http://www.wanttoknow.info/050711carmileageaveragempg