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Concorde had a maximum cruising altitude of 18,300 metres (60,000 ft) and an average cruise speed of Mach 2.02 (2,150 km/h; 1,330 mph), more than twice the speed of conventional aircraft. [ 130 ]
On a transatlantic flight, having a cruising speed of more than double a B-707, Concorde required less than half the number of block hours per trip. This illustrates that these two aircraft types were designed for entirely different flight regimes (subsonic versus supersonic) and different markets, so a direct comparison is not possible.
Afterburning was added to Concorde for take-off to cope with weight increases that came after the initial design. It was also used to accelerate through the high-drag transonic speed range, not because the extra thrust was required, but because it was available and improved the operating economics. The redesigned Tu-144D used engines with no ...
Concorde was originally designed for cruising speeds up to Mach 2.2, [55] but its regular service speed was limited to Mach 2.02 to extend airframe life. [56] One of Tupolev's web site pages states that "TU-144 and TU-160 aircraft operation has demonstrated expediency of limitation of cruise supersonic speed of M=2.0 to provide structure ...
Concorde, the world’s fastest commercial aircraft, has been making a rare journey – floating down New York’s Hudson River. Record-breaking supersonic Concorde airplane floats down New York ...
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 SAI Quiet Supersonic Transport is a 12-passenger design from Lockheed Martin that is to cruise at Mach 1.6, and is to create a sonic boom only 1% as strong as that generated by Concorde. [ 50 ] The supersonic Tupolev Tu-444 or Gulfstream X-54 have also been proposed.
Five years before Concorde’s first flight, ... The plane would later achieve a speed of just over 2,000 miles per hour, nearly 50% faster than Concorde.