Watch the thing fly itself
Concorde or Cub, the thinking is the same: “If everything was going absolutely perfectly, then you could just sit there and watch the thing fly itself across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound. But all the time you had the think about what you would do if there was some sort of an emergency.” Concorde Captain John Hutchinson. A snippet of his interview with Markus Voelter on the wonderfully in-depth podcast Omega Tau, 18 February 2015. He went on to discuss some of the major implications of losing an engine in supersonic cruise over the Atlantic at 50,000 … Continue reading Watch the thing fly itself