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...Captain Christian Marty's eyes would have carefully scanned the 1960s-era round gauges in the Concorde's cockpit for any signs that the No. 2 engine was acting up. He didn't need the engine's thrust reversers--which are used to slow the plane on landing--during takeoff, but Marty had ordered them repaired just before leaving the gate. The engine, on the left side, would bear watching. Marty and his co-pilot, Jean Marcot, and the flight engineer ran through the normal takeoff checklist--engine power, hydraulics, radios--as they taxied onto the runway, setting the plane...
...stray garbage, or rubber from a blown aircraft tire, passing through a high-speed turbine can cause the engine to fail--or worse. That is why military personnel usually scour runways before jet fighters take off and why commercial pilots check their tires. As he prepared the engine for takeoff, Marty's adrenaline may have surged a bit. Like any other Concorde pilot, he knew that takeoff for the big, beautiful marvel is the most demanding phase of flight...
...Both companies hope to keep the planes flying for another 14 or 15 years, and in fact both have recently upped their estimate of the number of "cycles" - roughly one transatlantic flight - the plane could stand, to 8,500. By this calculation, the planes are cleared for takeoff until 2006 at least. This view is supported by the fact that although its flights are high-stress and its takeoff and landing more labored than other planes, the Concorde makes only about a fifth of the trips more popular - and populist - planes...
...rogue state" whose missile capability is Exhibit A in Washington's case for going ahead. Not content to simply say "nyet," Putin's gone a step further by suggesting joint Russian-U.S. deployment of an alternative missile defense that would attack rogue missiles immediately after takeoff, and destroy them in the "boost phase" when they're easier targets. How serious Putin may or may not be about the system remains to be seen, but the point is he's playing Washington at its own game - and scoring points...
...will solve them at any cost. A fierce competitor, it was Grove who coined the term "Only the Paranoid Survive." Although a takeoff on the famous words of Social Darwinist Herbert Spencer, the phrase--which became the title of his 1994 best-selling book--has become a sort of mantra for the go-getters of the New Economy...