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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 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.htm...

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>serious temporal hazard

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

Discussed way back when (thank you!):

Epic Forum Thread on Concorde (2010) - 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.

There's also that thread about the Belgian couple who drove across the Congo:

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.

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.

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.

Long live old-school forums!

Thank you for the lost hours :) Fascinating read.

That was amazing! Thank you.

Wait, idlewords is still around??

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