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Data from The Wall Street Journal, [229] The Concorde Story, [230] The International Directory of Civil Aircraft, [73] Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde 1969 onwards (all models) [231] General characteristics. Crew: 3 (2 pilots and 1 flight engineer) Capacity: 92–120 passengers (128 in high-density layout) Length: 202 ft 4 in (61.66 m) Wingspan: 84 ...
The US Secretary of Transportation, William Coleman, gave permission for Concorde service to Dulles International Airport, and Air France and British Airways simultaneously began a thrice-weekly service to Dulles on 24 May 1976. [8] Due to low demand, AF cancelled its Washington service in October 1982, while BA cancelled it in November 1994. [9]
These factors together meant that the empty weight per seat of Concorde is more than three times that of a Boeing 747. Concorde and the Tu-144 were both constructed of conventional aluminum: Concorde of Hiduminium and Tu-144 of duralumin. Modern, advanced materials were not to come out of development for a few decades.
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1.1.2 Most capacitated international flight routes (airport pairs) ... by seat capacity and by aircraft movements. ... Airport 2 Passengers (2019) 1:
F-BTSC (203) was the Concorde lost in the crash of Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000 in the small town of Gonesse, France near Le Bourget, located just outside Paris, killing 113 people. The remains of this aircraft are stored at a hangar at Le Bourget Airport. It is the only Concorde in the history of the design to be destroyed in a crash.
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The Singaporean Concorde (G-BOAD) at Heathrow Airport in 1977 Since 1937, the predecessors of Singapore Airlines operated the Airspeed Consul , Boeing 707 , Boeing 737 , Bristol Britannia , Douglas DC-3 , Douglas DC-4 , de Havilland Comet 4 , Fokker F27 Friendship , Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation and the Vickers Viscount .