Owing to air compression in front of the plane as it travelled at supersonic speed, the fuselage heated up and expanded by as much as 300 mm (12 in). The most obvious manifestation of this was a gap that opened up on the flight deck between the flight engineer's console and the bulkh...
✈️Say the word Concorde and most who can remember will conjure up images of that marvel of aviation technology that took travellers hurtling through the stratosphere at twice the speed of sound. Here we are, well into the 21st Century and that e
The plane ___ over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It was given over 5000 hours of testing. Concorde flies at twice the speed of ___ This means that it ___ only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare with 7—8...
In the past, the LEGO® Icons line has celebrated some of the most impressive wonders from the world of engineering, and we felt it was high time we welcomed the world’s most famous passenger plane into the club. Previous SlideNext Slide Scroll thumbnails left Slide 1(Current slide) Slid...
A fairy plane that impressed me about this Concorde is the smoothness of the leadership and the ability to control the flow of air, as well as the way of rotation, was very wonderful I made two successful trips, this is wonderful Likewise, the simulation of the speed down by the triathlon...
If you climb up to around 50,000-60,000 feet this aircraft would perform exactly like the real plane. It also is difficult to fly at low speed like the real aircraft. Mobile/Blank Version: https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/g9I88f/BAC-Aerospatiale-Concorde-Blank Air France Version: https:...
Shushing Sonic Booms: NASA’s Supersonic X-Plane To Take Flight In 2021 November 26, 2018byTom Nardi35 Comments The history of aviation is full of notable X-Planes, a number of which heralded in new generations of flight. The Bell X-1 became the first aircraft to break the speed of sou...
To circumnavigate Concorde's luggage allowance restrictions, many passengers had carry-on wardrobe bags that could be hung up in the plane's two coat closets. Ground workers would fill the smaller front hold when loading the baggage onto the plane first and then put whatever was left in the ...
Despite this triumph, things didn't go well for Concorde. The partners launched an aggressive marketing campaign aimed at selling the plane all over the world in hopes of having over 500 flying by the 1990s. Instead, initial orders were all cancelled. This was due to many factors. The Ameri...
And on top of that, Concorde was a “dynamic” aircraft, as Hazelby puts it, operating unlike any other commercial plane. “It’s the most complex passenger aircraft ever made and so there were more things for the flight engineer to do on Concorde than any other aircraft,” he explains....