The most beautiful civil supersonic aircraft ever built, and unequalled to this day!
It's Franco-English, with France making the center section and England the front and rear sections.
Gothic delta wing. Engines: SNECMA + ROLLS-ROYCE - Powered by 4 Olympus 593 engines, total thrust: 63,500 kg.
Thrust was greater than that of a transatlantic liner.
Speed: over 2,300 km/h - Crossed the Atlantic in 3 hours 30 minutes.
20 Concordes were built, 14 of which flew.
First flight on March 2, 1969. First supersonic flight on October 1, 1969. On November 4, 1970, it reached mach 2. During tests, the aircraft set several altitude records.
First commercial flight on January 21, 1976 Rio via Dakar.
Arrival of the Air-France flight on August 16, 1995 at New York's JFK airport after breaking the round-the-world speed record. The supersonic jet made the trip in 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds, passing through three sunrises and three sunsets.
Forbidden to land on American soil at the start of its career, on the pretext of environmental noise. Above all, the Americans were unable to manufacture their supersonic aircraft, which remained in their workshops and was never finalized. They could not tolerate another country creating something better than their own...
On July 25, 2000, the Concorde's career came to an end when it crashed in France, killing 113 people. A titanium wear strip lost by a DC10 caused the loss of the aircraft at take-off. Flights resumed 15 months later, ending on May 31, 2003 for Air-France and October 24 for British Airways...
