Why do airlines avoid the Pacific Ocean? You might think it was a safety issue. The Pacific is the largest and deepest of the world’s oceans. If a plane encounters a problem over a seemingly endless and bottomless pond of water, the pilots are going to have a rough time finding a safe spot to set ...

Special thanks to Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/PeriscopeFilm) for letting us use exclusive and rare footage for this video! Checkout their YouTube channel for a huge collection of exciting historical footage. It was to fly even faster than the Concorde, at speeds approaching Mach 3. ...