Why did the Concorde supersonic plane fail?

Quitting smoking was the only thing which helped make flights like that bearable. Of course it made me an alcoholic and caffeine fiend. But at least I could do those on a plane.

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Because in America we don’t speak like Boris Badinov. “In UK they call plane Concorde. Plane flies very fast. Squirrel also flies very fast. Squirrel causes sonic kaboomsky.”

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I suspect that it is related to the fact that in American English, collective nouns are almost invariably singular.

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Worst. Cracker. Joke. Ever.

Oh, @d_r. You make me laugh! (I’ve always had a thing for bad boy Boris Badinov. NOTE: I wrote Badinov not Johnson.)

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Because you were dying to shout, “Now you will fear the awesome might of Canada!”

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Consider yourself lucky; at least it still looks good on paper. This was the Kiwis’ famous piece of unproduced military hardware:

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It’s a great success… as a display at the Udvar-Hazy center.

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