Jan 212015
It’s in some weird moon-man language, but even so it’s a fairly interesting look at the less successful of the two SSTs put into service.
Something struck me right off the bat. The film starts with footage from the Paris air show of 1973. There are various snippets of film… snippets that caused a moment of cognitive dissonance. Today, a supersonic transport would be a fantastical vision of the distressingly distant future… but the films were of incredibly low quality, scratched, dusty, black-and-white, grainy, clearly shot with crappy hand-held econo-model film cameras. Technology now safely in the distant past.
Think of it: the era of supersonic transports -a technology that we can only dream wistfully of today – began in BLACK AND WHITE.