Imagine flying between New York and London in half the time it takes today. Celebrities sit nearby, champagne and caviar are served. Fantasy? Not long ago, this was a reality – made possible by Concorde. An airplane faster than a bullet, faster than the speed of sound. An airplane that seemed impossible to make. In Season 4 of Teamistry, new host Nastaran Tavakoli-Far and lead producer Pedro Mendes travel to the U.K. and France to speak with the designers and engineers who dreamed the same dream, worked and failed together, and built the fastest passenger plane ever.
Welcome onboard, everyone.
All customers have now boarded and we will shortly be briefing you on the safety procedures of this aircraft.
What makes flying truly memorable?
Think about it.
A little extra legroom, an interesting chat with someone seated next to you, an adorable baby who, surprisingly doesn't throw a fit.
Is that it?
Now, what if I told you there was a time not long ago when taking one flight would place you in the history books?
It's my great pleasure to invite you on the world's only supersonic airliner.
In this season, we're going to explore the untold story of Concord, the supersonic passenger jet that changed our skies forever.
I'm Nazran Tavakoli Fahr.
I'm an investigative reporter and the new host of T Mystery, an original podcast from Atlassian, makers of collaborative software including Jira Trello and confluence.
You could hear it approaching.
It was thundering off the clouds.
It was like a sky God passing over.
In six episodes, we'll dive deep into the making of an impossible plane that flew faster than the speed of sound.
The two booms were very, very yes.
Could you feel it in your body?
Yes.
But we survived.
We'll bring you the inside stories of the collaboration between british and french teams who went beyond borders, politics and even language to make a passenger plane unlike anything that had flown before or that has flown since.