Making It Happen Anyway | Ziad Jreijiri | TEDxInternationalCollegeBeirut

[Music] This is the only picture we have of the world's first and last supersonic transport aircraft. It's called the Concord. And for this picture to be taken, the plane crew had to slow down from flying at twice the speed of sound to around 1.3% times the speed of sound.so that a Royal Air Force fighter jet could catch up and take it. This is the type of technology the aviation industry had around 25 or 30 years ago. Unfortunately, today we no longer have it.The reason behind this is what we call FOD or f ...