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Not a Thunderbird machine, but an amazing lapse of common sense.
When Thunderbirds aired, the British & French governments were
developing what would be the only
supersonic passenger plane ever to
enter service, the Concorde. At the time, such a technological
feat was rated as being second only to the Moon landings in
significance.
Fireflash was the 21st century's answer to her
20th century sister. She may look like a modern aircraft,
aside from the tail-mounted engines, but she's actually a hypersonic
jumbo capable of flying at the edge of space. Her flight deck is
also housed in the tail (no, I don't know how they see to land), and
the wings contain the first class lounge. Oh, yes, she's nuclear
powered with an ablative radiation shield that fails disastrously
after a few hours, so waiting on the tarmac results in a lot of
white-knuckled passengers worried about losing more than their
luggage. |
