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A new supersonic airliner?
Japan and France have announced they are jointly developing a new supersonic passenger plane, with up to three times as many seats as the dear departed Concorde and able to fly Tokyo to New York in six hours.
And about time, too. Weren’t all passenger planes supposed to be supersonic by now? I’m sure that’s what we were told in the ’70s.
(By the way, anyone but me remember a TV program called “Here Come the ’70s”? It aired on CTV in, presumably, 1969, or there abouts, and made an impression on the 10-year-old me not merely because it examined all the technological wonders we could expect in the decade to come, but also because the opening credits featured a backside view of a nude woman walking into the ocean…)
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2005/06/a-new-supersonic-airliner/
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Hey guys I know this thread is old but I googled the title to the show because i was curious about whether you might be able to get copies of old episodes. It would be a great laugh to have a look at those again and see what wonders they were envisioning for the new decade. I was an impressionable 15 year old and I thought that girl had a great a$$ and I can still remember the opening sequence. The music was by a group called Trillium I believe and it was performed on this fancy new Moog Synthesizer. Remember that?
I thought I was the only one. I still see her every time I here Steve Miller’s “Swingtown”
It did make an impression, particularly if one were of a certain age, didn’t it?
I remember “Here Come the 70s”, mainly for the same reason you do – the naked lady walking into the water.