The first Concorde failed to achieve its goal of doubling the speed of sound. The dejected aeronautics engineers were upset, saying, “I guess it’s Mach 2 basics.”
The first Concorde failed to achieve its goal of doubling the speed of sound. The dejected aeronautics engineers were upset, saying, “I guess it’s Mach 2 basics.”
The German engineers working on this plane were very skeptical about its ability to exceed the speed of sound but weren’t too worried about that. “Machs nix,” they said.