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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.
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 ...
When Concorde entered service in 1976, of the 74 options (non-binding orders, from 16 airlines) held at the time of the first flight, only those for the state airlines of Britain and France were taken up, so that only 20 were built, although flights were also flown for Braniff International and Singapore Airlines.
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The flight, lasting less than 4 hours, reached the maximum certified height of 60,000 ft (18,300 m). It flew a total of 23,376 hours. A new exhibition was constructed to house the aircraft, east of the airport at the old Spencers Plantation. [23] [24] Concorde G-BOAG at the Museum of Flight. G-BOAG (214) first flew on 21 April 1978 from Filton.
In a pre-computer age, flight engineers were crucial to aviation. Former Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby explains how he helped fly the supersonic jet.
The last passenger flight of the Tu-144 was in June 1978 and it was last flown in 1999 by NASA. Concorde's last commercial flight was in October 2003, with a November 26, 2003 ferry flight being its last flight. Following the termination of flying by Concorde, there have been no SSTs in commercial service.