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Here is a monster pilot forum thread on Concorde that ends up pulling in senior engineers, pilots, aerodynamicists and even a former flight attendant. They lovi

Here is a monster pilot forum thread on Concorde that ends up pulling in senior engineers, pilots, aerodynamicists and even a former flight attendant. They lovingly go over every detail of the plane's design and operation. WARNING, serious temporal hazard. Do not click if you have work to do today or are supervising small children. https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.html https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.htm...

walterbell 2y ago
Long live old-school forums!
Fizzadar 2y ago
Thank you for the lost hours :) Fascinating read.
anothertroll456 2y ago
That was amazing! Thank you. Wait, idlewords is still around??
bragr 2y ago
>serious temporal hazard Wow, you're not wrong. "I'll read just a little bit," I said. 2 hours later...
dang 2y ago
Discussed way back when (thank you!): Epic Forum Thread on Concorde (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8277343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8277343 - Sept 2014 (49 comments) We should have another HN thead about this once the Boom boom settles down.
- idlewords 2y ago
  There's also that thread about the Belgian couple who drove across the Congo: https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republic-of-congo-lubumbashi-to-kinshasa.50799/ https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ... I call these kinds of forum threads "afternoon destroyers". It would be fun to weaponize them into a whole organized link page.
  - tptacek 2y ago
    This is amazing. 10 minutes in I finally reached the entry labeled "Day 2" and closed the window out of self-defense. I'm going to send this link to annoying customer support clients to buy myself time.
    - idlewords 2y ago
      Yeah, or create a CAPTCHA that is something like "what transmission components did this car need replaced before reaching Kinshasa" and hide your Tier 1 support reps behind it.

walterbell 2y ago

Long live old-school forums!

Fizzadar 2y ago

Thank you for the lost hours :) Fascinating read.

anothertroll456 2y ago

That was amazing! Thank you. Wait, idlewords is still around??

bragr 2y ago

>serious temporal hazard Wow, you're not wrong. "I'll read just a little bit," I said. 2 hours later...

dang 2y ago

Discussed way back when (thank you!): Epic Forum Thread on Concorde (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8277343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8277343 - Sept 2014 (49 comments) We should have another HN thead about this once the Boom boom settles down.

idlewords 2y ago
There's also that thread about the Belgian couple who drove across the Congo: https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republic-of-congo-lubumbashi-to-kinshasa.50799/ https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ... I call these kinds of forum threads "afternoon destroyers". It would be fun to weaponize them into a whole organized link page.
- tptacek 2y ago
  This is amazing. 10 minutes in I finally reached the entry labeled "Day 2" and closed the window out of self-defense. I'm going to send this link to annoying customer support clients to buy myself time.
  - idlewords 2y ago
    Yeah, or create a CAPTCHA that is something like "what transmission components did this car need replaced before reaching Kinshasa" and hide your Tier 1 support reps behind it.