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To fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean, Concorde required the greatest supersonic range of any aircraft. [120] This was achieved by a combination of powerplants which were efficient at twice the speed of sound, a slender fuselage with high fineness ratio, and a complex wing shape for a high lift-to-drag ratio. Only a modest payload could be ...
Mr Henkes also allowed the Concorde to fly at Mach 1.5 over East Germany prior to arrival at Leipzig aeroport during its first flight as this specific route was designated as military flight practice with fighters flying at supersonic speed. The overland speed record by the passenger aeroplane over the European land remains unbroken to this day.
The fuel burn for Concorde was four times more than today’s British Airways Airbus A350, which carries three times as many passengers. Twenty-first-century travellers are far more comfortable.
The Concorde supersonic transport had an ogival delta wing, a slender fuselage and four underslung Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 engines. The Tupolev Tu-144 was the first SST to enter service and the first to leave it. Only 55 passenger flights were carried out before service ended due to safety concerns.
The supersonic aircraft suffered a catastrophic crash in Paris on 25 July 2000
In 2003, Lewis Whyld took an instantly classic photograph of the Concorde on its last flight, soaring over the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, United Kingdom.
It made its final flight to Manchester Airport – where a "glass hangar" was later built at the viewing park for its display – on 31 October 2003 after flying 22,260 hours. [12] Concorde G-BOAB in storage at London (Heathrow) Airport, following the end of all Concorde flights. G-BOAA (206) first flew on 5 November 1975 from Filton.
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