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If you’re in the market for a more special buy, this is as special as it gets. As it so happens, it’s also on the affordable side: one of the aircraft from dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s Presidential fleet is about to go under the hammer.
Romanian ex-dictator Ceausescu s plane set for auction
He used the plane between 1986 and December 1989, including on his last trip abroad to Iran H. J. I. / AFP
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Romanian ex-dictator Ceausescu s plane set for auction
The Rombac Super One-Eleven plane, seen by Nicolae Ceausescu as a crowning achievement of Romanian industry, will have a starting price of 25,000 euros
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The presidential plane used by Romania s former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is to go under the hammer later this month, the Artmark auction house announced on Wednesday.
-The Rombac Super One-Eleven plane, seen by Nicolae Ceausescu as a crowning achievement of Romanian industry, will have a starting price of 25,000 euros- Artmark said ahead of the May 27 sale.
Prince Philip yesterday took the controls of Concorde, the world s first supersonic airliner.
Ten miles high over the Bay of Biscay, he flew the plane at 1,340mph twice the speed of sound.
The Prince, in sports jacket and cavalry twill trousers, stayed at the controls for 30 minutes.
His verdict: A very pleasant aircraft to fly nothing mysterious or complicated.
The Duke of Edinburgh takes the controls of a Boeing 757 airliner during a demonstration flight near Seattle, Washington
Prince Philip s rating from his Concorde instructor, chief test pilot Brian Trubshaw, was: A pretty polished performance.
The Prince s 90 minutes and 1,150 miles in Concorde represented the final seal of approval for the £885million Anglo-French project, which six months ago was still a possible candidate for the Government s economy axe.
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New, eye-opening renderings have been released of the interior of a 1,100mph (Mach 1.6) supersonic jet that will be capable of flying from New York to London in around three-and-a-half hours.
The $100million (£71million) Spike S-512 Supersonic Business Jet, by Boston-based Spike Aerospace, is slated to begin test flights in 2022 and begin flying passengers ‘in 2028’, according to CEO Vik Kachoria.
The Spike Aerospace team s concept renderings show how the plane s 12 to 18 passengers could find themselves zipping around the globe in something akin to a mini-hotel in the sky.
New interior renderings show how Spike S-512 passengers could find themselves inside a flying luxury mini-hotel