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On some aircraft that conducted a retiring supersonic flight, the flight engineers placed their caps in this expanded gap, wedging the cap when the airframe shrank again. [111] To keep the cabin cool, Concorde used the fuel as a heat sink for the heat from the air conditioning. [112] The same method also cooled the hydraulics.
The final Concorde flight worldwide took place on 26 November 2003 with G-BOAF carrying 100 BA cabin crew members and pilots out over the Bay of Biscay and going supersonic over the Atlantic followed by a fly-past over Bristol Filton Airport before landing there in front of a crowd of more than 20,000 people. [104]
Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft climbed ...
A similar flight was planned for the 21 June 2001 solar eclipse, but was cancelled after the 2000 plane crash of Air France Flight 4590. [3] Airborne eclipse chasing has been successfully attempted on other non-supersonic aircraft including a LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (E-Flight 2019-MAX), [3] and a 2024 Gulfstream V jet. [4]
The company’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft’s supersonic flight is the first time an independently developed jet has broken the sound barrier. ... 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 ...
Designs for supersonic airliners began in the mid-20th century, and by the 1970s we had supersonic passenger flight. There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde, a Franco-British ...
By 1964, whether civilian supersonic aircraft would be licensed was unclear, because of the problem. [27] The annoyance of a sonic boom can be avoided by waiting until the aircraft is at high altitude over water before reaching supersonic speeds; this was the technique used by Concorde. However, it precludes supersonic flight over populated areas.
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 test jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Tuesday. The XB-1 is a subscale version of its planned passenger model. The company's CEO says the US aviation market ...