Concorde is a tailless aircraft design with a narrow fuselage permitting 4-abreast seating for 92 to 128 passengers, an ogival delta wing and a droop nose for landing visibility. It is powered by four Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 turbojets with variable engine intake ramps, and reheat for take-off and acceleration to supersonic speed.

6 天之前 · The Concorde was a supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane. Built in the 1960s as part of a joint venture between the United Kingdom and France, the Concorde was the first commercial aircraft of its kind.

2023年6月30日 · Why did the Concorde, one of the greatest supersonic aircraft ever designed and built, touch down for the last time in 2003?

2024年12月18日 · Capable of flying 1,350 miles per hour at 60,000 feet, the Concorde was a supersonic marvel — so why was it discontinued? The official presentation of a Concorde prototype in 1967. The British and French agreed to work together to build a commercial plane that could fly faster than the speed of sound in 1962. A view of the Concorde in 1967.

2023年11月24日 · Concorde crossed the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, cutting travel time in half compared to a conventional passenger plane. The groundbreaking jet made its final flight on Nov. 26,...

Concorde certainly made a splash when it was first released in 1976, but there are some very good reasons why this supersonic jetliner, with cruising speeds of over Mach 2 and cruising altitude of 60,000 feet, isn't flying today. The Need For Concorde.

2025年1月28日 · The Mach 1 milestone was reached on the 12th test flight of the XB-1. The company says it plans to incorporate what it learns from the XB-1 into a supersonic passenger jet known as Overture that ...

2024年10月19日 · On January 21, 1976, two Concordes — one from each airline — took off simultaneously to mark the plane's first supersonic passenger flight.

2019年4月22日 · All 109 people onboard died in a cataclysmic fire, one that damaged the public perception of supersonic passenger jets. “The Concorde crash was entirely preventable,” Chittum says.

More than 2.5 million passengers have flown supersonically on Concorde since 1976. Each passenger was issued with a certificate to prove that they’d broken the sound barrier. As the plane gathered speed, those on board could watch the Mach meter at the front of the cabin.