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15 de may. de 2024 · Updated. May 15, 2024, 11:59 AM PDT. A British Airways Concorde takes off from JFK International Airport in New York for the final time on October 24, 2003. AP. Co-developed by Britain and...
9 de may. de 2024 · Concorde operations were finally ceased by Air France in May 2003 and by British Airways in October 2003. Only 14 of the aircraft actually went into service. A British Airways Concorde. The Concorde was the first major cooperative venture of European countries to design and build an aircraft.
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- The Concorde was a supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane. Built in the 1960s as part of a joint venture between the United Kingdom and...
- The Concorde was developed by the United Kingdom and France as part of the first major cooperative aircraft design venture between two European cou...
- The Concorde made its first successful flight on March 2, 1969, with a maximum cruising speed of 2,179 km (1,354 miles) per hour, more than twice t...
- The Concorde’s production and operation was an enormous financial undertaking for both the United Kingdom and France, contributing to sky-high tick...
- The Concorde’s retirement was due to a number of factors. The supersonic aircraft was noisy and extremely expensive to operate, which restricted fl...
7 de may. de 2024 · Air France made its final Concorde flight on June 27 that year. This was then followed by British Airways' final Concorde tour, which concluded with the aircraft's last commercial flight on October 24, 2003. Concorde had been in service for 27 years, having made its first commercial flight on January 21, 1976. Read more on Concorde
14 de may. de 2024 · Updated May 14, 2024. The supersonic jet cut transatlantic journey times by more than half. Photo: John Selway | Shutterstock. Summary. Concorde set a record for the fastest transatlantic crossing in 1996, completing the flight in under 3 hours.
Hace 6 días · The Concorde fleet was retired from service in 2003. Check out more photos of the jet’s return to the Intrepid in the gallery below, which we’ll update throughout the morning!
22 de may. de 2024 · The Museum’s aircraft retirement flight was on Nov. 5, 2003. On its way to The Museum of Flight, the Alpha Golf set a New York City-to-Seattle speed record of 3 hours, 55 minutes, and 12 seconds. Much of the flight was over northern Canada, where it flew supersonic for 1 hour, 34 minutes and 4 seconds.
Hace 4 días · Since the Concorde's last passenger flight in 2003, there had been little attempt to resuscitate the service, until recently. Over the past decade, numerous start-ups have cropped up...
