Everything was built from scratch. ibid.
Concorde would cost five time its original budget. ibid.
1967 when Concorde 001 was unveiled in France. ibid.
The sales tour backfired: rather than winning new orders they began to lose them. ibid.
The sonic boom was becoming a global issue. ibid.
America’s project was struggling even to get off the ground. ibid.
July 25th 2000 and the unthinkable had happened. ibid.
One aircraft transformed the world. With two decks carrying over 500 passengers and wings the width of a football pitch it was twice the size of any airliner before: the Boeing 747. Affectionately known as the Jumbo Jet: it’s still an engineering marvel. Engineering Giants s1e1: Jumbo Jet Strip Down, BBC 2017
Every six years 747s come here [Cardiff] for a complete overhaul. That means that they’re stripped right down; every part is meticulously checked. ibid.
For more than a quarter of a century she was the undisputed queen of the skies. The most advanced commercial jet ever. Costing more than £3 billion to develop, taking fifteen years to build, and flying faster than any airliner before or since. Concorde I: Designing the Dream, Channel 5 2017
After three fatal crashes the entire Comet fleet was grounded in 1954. ibid.
Powered by 4 Olympus jet engines – these would prove 36,000 pounds of thrust, enough to reach Mach 2. ibid.
‘Dr Ted Talbot – to me he is the father of the Concorde intake.’ ibid. Ricky Bastin
The world’s first aeronautical digital control system. ibid.
In 1972 Concorde flew into Sydney and a storm of protest. ibid.
An airliner nobody wanted. ibid.
Concorde began flying commercially in 1976 after costing around £3 billion to design, develop and build. She was the fastest and most revolutionary airliner the world had ever seen, but for British Airways she also cost a fortune to run. Concorde II: Triumph & Tragedy
As well as tackling the fares structure the new division overhauled the marketing. ibid.
25 years after she was designed Concorde had become a financial success and the ultimate status symbol. ibid.
One flight would bring its glory days to an abrupt and horrifying end … In July 2000 Air France flight 4590 crashed on takeoff. ibid.
Concorde’s speed, rigorous pilot training and supreme inflight luxury was an unbeatable combination. ibid.
In an Alabama swamp a pilot crashes in mysterious circumstances; in Alaska a 747 is menaced by an unidentified aircraft; and in the heart of America an unknown object threatens the lives of thousands. The Unexplained Files s2e9: Mysteries at 30,000 Feet, Science 2014
July 2013 UK: A bright metallic object flies dangerously close to an airbus. ibid.
Japan Air 1628 Anchorage: Two unidentified objects menace a Japan Airline’s 747 … A gigantic object appears alongside … ibid.
In the last half of the 20th century spy planes soared through the stratosphere. Secrets of War s1e42: Spy Planes
U2 … was given an elaborate cover story, that it was a weather plane designed for scientific experiments. ibid.
By the early ’60s a new supersonic spy plane was being tested and refined in the Nevada desert: codenamed Oxcart … known as the Blackbird. ibid.
To this day there is controversy over how the A-12 was used. ibid.
Boeing’s KC-135 jet tanker – a cousin of Boeing’s 707 commercial airliner. ibid.
Spy planes made their debut in war in all shapes and sizes. ibid.
A passenger jet disappears: now new discoveries may be close to revealing what really happened to Malaysia Airlines MH370. Mysteries of the Missing s1e1: MH370, Discovery 2018
‘One of aviation’s greatest mysteries.’ ibid.
No clues, no evidence. ibid.
‘A consignment in this flight of lithium-iron batteries … they can spontaneously combust.’ ibid. David Learmount, aviation investigator
The aircraft mysteriously changed course. ibid.
‘There were two passengers on the aircraft who were flying on stolen passports.’ ibid.
A piece of wreckage … on an island 3,000 miles away … MH370 was ditched. ibid.
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370: A passenger plane goes missing. The mysterious disappearance points to a frightening possibility: could the very systems designed to make flying safer be responsible? Mysteries of the Missing s1e8: Flight of Terror
Three hours and twenty minutes into its journey the plane exits Brazilian radar coverage and then it vanishes. ibid.
The wreckage is compressed in ways no-one had imagined. ibid.
By the time the plane hits the weather system it is a major storm. ibid.
This is the story of a group of brilliant young footballers and one visionary manager. A snow-covered runway in West Germany. Two brave wartime fighter pilots. And a state of the art aircraft with a flaw. This is the countdown to an infamous plane crash that shook Britain to its core. James Nesbitt: Disasters that Changed Britain IV: Munich Air Crash, History 2018
The loss not just of life but what might have been. ibid.
In the years after the war there were hundreds of crashes. ibid.
It skidded off the end of the runway, crashed into the fence and then hit a house. ibid.
For the elite echelon of Britain’s wealthy flying first class is the only way to travel. With tickets costing as much as £10,000 for a single journey, rivalry between airlines to attract the super-rich is at an all-time high. Singapore airlines was once voted Airline of the Year but intense competition has caused profits to nosedive. The World’s Most Luxurious Airline, Channel 4 2018
One of the suite’s biggest selling points is the deployable bed. ibid.
Its fierce rival Emirates has unveiled their own new suite. ibid.