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I've been asked a quiz question as follows:
"What made its first trial flight on January 1, 1969"
The 747 & Concorde both first flew in 1969 and there was also a great deal of US & USSR space activity but so far as I can see nothing first flew on that date.
Any ideas? http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/confused.gif
newswatcher
2nd Jan 2001, 16:45
From the information I have, the first flight of the 747 was Feb 9, 1969, and the first flight of Concorde 001 from Toulouse was Mar 1, 1969.
Guess that doesn't help you with the "Right" answer!
crewrest
2nd Jan 2001, 17:25
My first Hangover?
pesket
2nd Jan 2001, 17:59
me!!!! I was born 9mth later.
happy new year.
Captain Airclues
2nd Jan 2001, 18:28
BOAC introduced the Bidline on the 1st January 1969.
Airclues
wysiwyg
2nd Jan 2001, 18:44
Pesket - there's a coincidence, me too!
Regards
wizzy
enginefailure
2nd Jan 2001, 18:52
APOLLO ?
cheers
ef
Smoketoomuch
2nd Jan 2001, 19:07
Hmmm, TU-144 [Concordski] first flew Dec 31st 1968.... close enough?
yakkity
2nd Jan 2001, 19:13
Well the TU144 made it's maiden flight on the 31 Dec 1968. I know it is not the 1 Jan 1969 , but it is the closest.
Perhaps the quizmaster has duff gen.
Thank you for your help and pesket & wysiwyg, your daddies must have been stalwarts at that time of year - as the bard wrote of the booze " . . . provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance . . ." :)
RATBOY
2nd Jan 2001, 20:26
If they kept the records in Z, (GMT, UCT, whatever) and it was 31 December 68 it could have been 1/1/69 in local time.
Reaching a little isn't that?
ust for the records...
001 Concorde flew in 1967 and 002 in 1969, all to read at the British Science Museum in London.....the first Concorde went in service on 21. January 1976
On 21. Dec 1968 for the first time a manned vehicle left the earth orbit and made it around the moon. The first man on the moon happened just months later in 1969.
1969 Air Atlantique was established in Jersey, sorry, donīt have the exact date...
and on 03.Jan 1969 Michael Schumacher was born :)
Bellerophon
3rd Jan 2001, 00:27
FL310
Sorry, but Concorde did not fly in 1967.
The first flight was on the 02 March 1969 when Concorde 001, F-WTSS, under the command of Andre Turcat, Director of Flight Test at Sud Aviation, took off from Toulouse.
The first flight of a British Concorde, as you rightly say, was some five weeks (and nine flights by 001) later on 09th April 1969, when Concorde 002, G-BSST, under the command of Brian Trubshaw, Chief Test Pilot for BAC, took off from Filton, landing at Fairford.
Both were beaten by the Russian TU 144, which first flew on 31st December 1968.
[This message has been edited by Bellerophon (edited 02 January 2001).]
well said, my words did not sound correctly, it was actually very sarcastic as I have written several times to the museum as well as I tried several times to have their website corrected.
Of course, Concorde flew first in ī69.....
expedite_climb
3rd Jan 2001, 04:56
So if the Russian TU 144 flew on 31st Dec 1968 in UTC, that makes it quite possibly 1/1/69 in russia at that point methinks ?
QED ?
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Ratboy & EC - Hmm, I wonder . . .
Where in the USSR did the TU144 first fly? They have/had an enormous E-W spread. I can well remember about 8hrs Riga to Bloodybostok :)
Thanks for the idea.
wysiwyg
5th Jan 2001, 05:55
pesket - I trust we're not twins separated at birth!!!
pesket
7th Jan 2001, 03:18
I'm not gonna say anything until I know what you look like.......who's my daddy...superfly!!!!!!
regards
pesket