I think we just all stand a lot for this answer here. Like most people in the world would hear the conviction in this man's voice. And in these productions here, the Smithsonian Channel, and PBS and services like that, and the people that work for them are more important, or as important, as the people who teach our youth in schools. Analyze air flows and refine the shape.
Because Johnny did grow up with a silver spoon in that map. Come towards you, me, Delta Wing. But he wanted to work hard. And when he fucking believed in...
Air liner before, but the air liner was intended to fly fast enough. He's a goddamn great client, man. He's a five-deltic. This is a beautiful curve to it.
Delta Wing is probably the best compromise for high-speed cruising ability for the SuperSons and low speed handling. Super Sonic Travel was an exciting new possibility at the 1963 Paris Air Show. One of the biggest attractions was the first model of the country. And its daring new shape was not the only news.
American Juan Tripp, president of the most powerful airline of the time, Pan Am, had placed an order for six concords. In Washington, President Kennedy was furious when he learned about the order because he had already decided that the American aviation industry was not going to be left behind. You see what that one trick did? No, I did not.
He put out an announcement. He's got a five-six planes from the British and the French. How could he do that when he knew we were about to go ahead? But now we used to give him this message for me and make it very clear that I simply ought to retract that.
And you are awake now and see if we can get a state that's going to do otherwise. This is where I picked up. Where I picked up. The United States being in a secondary position in the air and also I found some payment problems.
You hear the uneasy ones. There is going to be any things that are going to be more excited than doing that. You hear that calm right there? That was somebody who knew telling him he respected him through the way that they conducted business with one another.
And graduation ceremonies at the Air Force Academy. Kennedy, through the United States into the race. I'm announcing today that the United States will commit itself to an important new program in civilian aviation. It is my judgment that this is going to be a leader that has gone corrupt on certain nations due to politics in today's world.
Listen, Hitler, you for today. Listen. People across the world, if you history, it's something to stop on. It is not.
It is to be learned, discovered by everybody. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union was also jumping into the supersonic pain. And my food is here. He's fun.
All right, here we go, here we go. Here we go. Okay, so I just came back in from getting my food. Perhaps I'll do what even faster?
It was possible. I believe that's a Japanese man by the sound of his voice. And the engineers on each team faced unprecedented technological challenges at a time when computerization was in its infancy. It is remarkable.
The development and design of this airplane was long before the advent of high-performance testing. Is that one of the good side-rops? Child-looking guys? There's thousands of engineers working across the supply chain trying to optimize...
More earnestness looks and less bogged down with... ...you know, people who are bogged down mentally. If you can tell, people who are bogged down mentally. Once you just open your own consciousness, you can.
High-court was the first time that British and French aerospace designers, former competitors, for those of you that don't know what bogged down means in this sense, I will pause it to teach a little bit of a history lesson. Being bogged down in the mud, being bogged down in the trenches, it means a lot of things in a lot of different sports and a lot of different industries. And it's a term that stems from people being bogged down from the weather. Being so bad that they were people were dying and they were fighting over drier lands.
They were fighting over, you know, a better setting and place to live. And that was what life was for these civilizations that lived before us. And that is why we call them native civilizations and they are to be protected and they are to be trusted. Now, back to the show.
I'm going to get in on some food. The project required not only high precision, but the rest of the picture is kind of fixed. I definitely can't. It's like this.
All through its development, sections of contour, we're shipped back. We'll pick up a more interesting thing. Massive truck. That is a very massive truck moving.
The intersection of the truck and to do this project is a section which is a part of it. No. Yeah. The rest of the picture is a picture.
The intersection to the picture. You had to interface parts with this position. What? I couldn't understand what the damn word he said.
Oh, wow. All right. We'll continue on this. This is a good experiment here.
All right. You know what? I trust the show and I should definitely just let it play. I just don't want to be copyright strikes.
Copyright strikes on these sorts of things. Are such a fucking pain in the ass to ever get your shit published again. So once again, Kansas City PBS is where I'm getting this from. Mr.
Airway is public aviation. Oh, yeah, that's what this lesson is about here. Public aviation. Arrow space.
And sitting in the pilot's seat with the nose out, he simply would not be able to see runway at all. The ingenious solution was a mechanism that tipped the nose down. So the pilot had a clear view. Start turning towards one hand and feet above, in and out.
Look at that. Run away all the time. Take your troubles out. 50, 40, 30, 20, 50.
And that's not putting comfortable to a halt. He was in the front of the enemy's life. And she's such a delight of life. The six months that you take to learn is worth every single level of it.
The giant hangar at the RTR headquarters. I want to make very clear that I'm not fully college educated or in any way a teacher or associated with any teaching organizations of my awareness at this time. I'm just doing this because I like history. Okay.
Now fuck off. You're an eager audience. Despite the fanfare, it was not yet ready to fly. The three-way race for a supersonic transport plane, or SSD, was heating up.
There was a technological race between the West and the former Soviet Union. There was competition between Europe and the United States as well. Great Britain and France got the leg up on the United States and mainly the United States wanted to build an SSD just to compete. The American entry into the race came from Boeing, a supersonic passenger plane called the 2707.
Like Concord, the project was financed by government money. But the design was even more ambitious. Over 100 feet long, carrying more than twice as many passengers and flying about 500 miles an hour faster. But it would ultimately be the Soviet Union that became Concord's biggest competitor.
Today, a museum east of Moscow features the plane that gave Concord a run for its money, the Kupalev 144. The Kupalev 144 is a legendary plane machine. The name of that legend is Tubalov 144. It's the first supersonic airliver in the world.
I'm not going to make a holiday phone call real quick to that cousin, if you like. You might pick up. Drones, clones, and droids. What is the future?
An aviation and aerospace in technology? This is somewhat like the words, possibly of John, giving a lecture. And we may have moved past the point of aviation where we're talking about John Kennedy as the greatest ambassador to any nation's ever existed. In the airline business, when there's new airplane, especially when it promises great new performance, many airlines are interested to get onboarding place options on the aircraft.
Bob Vander Linden. That definitely sounds like a Smithsonian name, man. Dude, Vander Linden. Oh my God.
That's some red dead shit, dude. That's cool as fuck. It's out here on public television out here. It's not like finding these guys.
Let's go. Okay, so think about how cool that name is and how important the shit is. It's called British Air. Think about all the times.
Okay, think about all the times Kennedy heard air, air, air, air, and his training and his training and the exercises and the drills and the shit that they teach in military school wing. He became a member of military council because of his ambitions and his predetermined rank based off of his own ability to show that he was being well educated by the people around him. It's a big setback for these Soviets. Sounds like fucking Kyle Storz, whatever the dude's name is.
Do you think that it will compromise their supersonic program? I don't think so. I think I have more guts than that. Just as a real one, if such a situation occurred.
It sounds like FBS Russian. It would not surprise me if this guy was. It sounds like some stuff off of like Deadliest Warrior, like a Spike TV production and this is the quality that we're getting at public television. It's good.
So good. But in Paris and London, the long wait was over at last. After more than 13 years of joint effort, the dream plane was finally taking off. The Boeing 747.
For the first time, passengers arrived at their boarding gates with ticket stands. I think. I don't know. You've got to remember, one of my self's died.
Just before noon, a British Airways Concorde left the gate at Heathrow Airport. Its destination, Bahrain. At the very same second, an Air France Concorde, the Rio de Janeiro, rolled down the runway in Paris. The double tank off was broadcast by 199 people.
The division is perfect, man. That's a gimmick, man. You have this airplane that operates like a fighter plane that carried people with a comfort. Did you see that?
Okay, so 48,000 feet at 2G's, 2 lateral G's. I just figured that out. Fucking, just by looking at the scorecards. That's how they read scoreboards back in the fucking airline industry.
Let's go. Let's go. It was when the magma here indicated the breaking of the sound barrier. And then at Mach 2.2, those were the moments when passengers liked to be photographed in front of the magma.
The voice is very beautiful. Look, those are people that want to do their jobs. See, that's a problem with today's world. We get lazy people that don't want to do their job.
You look at this footage. Those people really wanted to do their job. And I don't know if they're putting on an axe for the camera or not, but whether or not. That is big time for these people.
That's getting put in the news and the media and the publications and the people that they know growing up will grow to respect them more over time because they don't be changed the position of the central gravity as well. The only way that could be moved around in flight to change concord central gravity was the fuel. More than 31,000 gallons in 13 separate tanks. One of the most technologically significant features of the conqueror can't see was the ability to transfer fuel from fuel tanks to the front to the back as the aircraft transitions.
Supersonics being a back to subsonics. I just remembered that. Actually in possession of some of the... Some of the...
Some of these means work here. This one looks like a written... It sits from my family back to a... Back to a lover.
This was my great grandfather who served in the United States Army. I don't... I've read my own, these things perfect for me to just open up. It's gonna be hard for me to read because this is an old English cursive, which I will learn to write in again one day.
Something I forgot. But this letter is dated. Okay, let's see. This letter is undated.
It's very important that some of these letters that arrive on... Oh no, it's stamped. Never mind, it's stamped. Okay, August 28th, 730 AM 1943, ILL, which I believe used to be the state.
Illinois... What do we call those fucking abbreviations? Okay, alright. Rhymes with aviation.
That's what I'm talking about. That's why my mind will blink because I have a creative mind. Remember that. Okay.
It says dearest sweetheart. Read your most welcome letter today. Read your most welcome letter today. I...
I was glad. I'm gonna need to shine a light. Sorry if that... Just wrapped in my audio.
Okay. I'll read the text the best I can. Because it's written in cursive and it's written frantically. Okay, it says...
Here's where it says something about need. It says need, either pigeon or... What would be a double... I don't know.
I can't read it. But it says camp the last two days. Okay. So that he was only in Nebraska training as far as I'm aware.
Pretty hard on it. They are expecting a... Someone else is expecting something and that's the prospect that he put into his love his mind. That's incredible.
And whether what happened in the war or not, these letters were gonna hold somebody special. It was hot, accountable. Alright. Back to the show.
And that helped balance aircraft out change the center of gravity. Supersonic speed also meant that the exterior of the plane made of aluminum got so hot that it actually stretched during flight. The concord was designed to expand almost nine inches in flight. That's just making fake of those boner-belch-belch-belch.
Don't even notice that. That's not a warm day. That's fucking hilarious. Okay.
Let the teachers teach here for a second. I'll shut the fuck up and go eat. The court was a technological success. Concerns continued to grow about whether it would ever be a financial one.
Its biggest potential market, New York, was off-limits. Because of the sonic boom and the noise from takeoff and landing, the port authority would not allow it to fly into the city. In the United States, there was a great deal of pushback in New York because of environmental reasons, particularly sound. The concord on takeoff is extremely loud.
I mean, it's got four bomber engines on it with afterburners. And when those engines are lit, it's very, very loud. It shakes the windows. You're flying very loud airplane over one of the largest involved in the world.
So there's going to be a lot of unhappy people on the ground. Without New York roots, there was no guarantee that concord could survive. The noise from supersonic flight was a bigger problem than just landing in New York. In fact, any supersonic flight overlanded by civilian planes was banned in 1973 and is still against US law.
That's because the sonic boom is heard on the ground under the entire flight path of a supersonic plane. We call it the carpet that is essentially right, directly under the flight path of the airplane up to 25 miles on either side, is exposed to the sonic boom sound. In the Ufly Overland supersonic, there's a lot of people that could be disturbed by the sound. But there are almost five times as many people flying on US airlines today as there were in the 70s.
So any breakthrough that could speed up traffic would be a huge advantage. The ground is going down and in here ready where you want to go. For decades, scientists at NASA have been trying to answer a key question. Could they design a quiet supersonic plane?
The solution might lie in changing the shape of the shockwaves that produce sonic wounds in the air. We call the sonic boom the end wave. That's because we plotted on paper, you have a large spike, a gradual decrease in pressure, and then another large spike. So you hear the bang bang, what we're trying to do is we're trying to change those spikes into a more gradual pressure rise.
So instead of an end, you've got more like an S lying on its side and you don't get a bang anymore. Test pilots like Niels Larson already know that certain flight maneuvers make a lot less noise. We say well and for him, don't get me. Don't be misled.
No you shield. No you shield. They give us a point based on winds and where they have the microphones and that kind of stuff. And so the point that knows at the ground 33 degrees, people are just like going straight down.
It can get pretty exciting pretty quick. That produces a shaped boom. And it sounds a little bit more like just enrolling thunder instead of the typical end wave. I do look like he's still an crack crack.
Sounds like a hot chance plane would never be able to fly like this. But Peter Cohen and David Ridgwine lead a team that's designed a model of an experimental plane. They hope will produce this kind of softer boom. It starts with a nose that's even longer than contours.
To help dissipate the shot waves in such a way. So in all of what would happen with a mess in those, is you have a fairly strong shot wave on the nose of the airplane. So I don't want to have to edit this. So I'm going to cut this.
I'm going to cut this here. I don't know how much more interesting the broadcast is going to be because I get into the specifics and this is kind of more sacred knowledge to me. So if you want to turn on your television and try to find public broadcast service for your local area. That's the message.
Thank you all and good night. Hey, tell me what you're looking at coming. I'm looking at an idea. I got a visual on it.
Looks like a kid's name is John. What the fuck is he saying? What's he saying? I think that's a acid.
Okay, we're going to need a mid-roll at part two and three and add some sort of visual effect with the editing and precisely, precisely, experiment with the editing before, before setting up the audio because these fuckers are virgins of the shit.