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How Astronomers Used the First Concorde Prototype To Chase a Total Eclipse (vice.com)
tedlistens writes: On Wednesday, a solar eclipse gave people across a swath of Indonesia and the South Pacific the chance to see a generous 4 minutes and 9 seconds of totality: the awe-inspiring sight of the moon completely covering the sun, turning day into night and offering a rare glimpse of the corona, the gas swirling in the Sun's outer atmosphere. But in 1972, a small group of astronomers from around the globe sought a way for seeing a longer eclipse than ever before: a prototype Concorde, capable of chasing the eclipse for a whopping 74 minutes across the Sahara Desert, at twice the speed of sound.
Rod Stewart would travel from London to NY on the Concorde, EVERY WEEK, just to have his hair styled.
Seriously dude, who didn't?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Yes they had special little flaps to hide the E whenever they flew over english speaking countries...
and by the way I have a bridge to sell you ....
You don't need to consume 350,000+ L of kerosene every week for a hair cut.
Especially when the result is looking like an aged lesbian
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"