Thunderbirds - Fireflash: Flight from London to New York

[frglee]

I like the Fireflash....A nice piece of design work for a hypersonic plane for the mid 21st century done at a time when Concorde was in the planning stage . Thunderbirds must have been great fun for the creators.

[Alembic25]

It really was of it's time. In the mid 60s, many aerospace concepts were being studied for hypersonic airliners. Fireflash used nuclear engines which were actually studied for long duration missions on bombers. Burning kerosene or liquid hydrogen was replaced by high powered heat exchangers within the engines to create enough temperature to run the gas turbines. Lethal if the plane crashed though.....

[TB1fan]

I Cant believe it... IT landed...

[stu1701E]

@TB1fan A rare sight indeed. Great work on TB 2010 by the way.

[emithunderfan1]

EL COMETA, TAMBIÉN APARECE EN LOS EPISODIOS ``LOS IMPOSTORES´´ Y ``RIESGO DE SEGURIDAD´´

[thebladezmanII]

The quality on this is just phenomonal, the best ive seen Thunderbirds look really!

[ldisc66]

welcome to the future folks where it takes longer for a passenger to check their luggage in and board the aircraft than it does to fly from London to New York. LOL!

[stu1701E]

@ldisc66 Indeed, and both London and New York each have a single vast airport with dozens of runways!