Concorde | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-21

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00:03:21 1 Development
00:03:29 1.1 Early studies
00:04:55 1.2 Slender deltas
00:07:08 1.3 Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee
00:10:03 1.4 Ogee planform selected
00:11:46 1.5 Partnership with Sud Aviation
00:14:38 1.6 Cabinet response, treaty
00:17:40 1.7 Naming
00:19:09 1.8 Sales efforts
00:21:51 1.9 Testing
00:25:16 2 Design
00:25:24 2.1 General features
00:28:44 2.2 Powerplant
00:35:34 2.3 Heating problems
00:38:21 2.4 Structural issues
00:39:43 2.5 Range
00:41:10 2.6 Radiation concerns
00:42:07 2.7 Cabin pressurisation
00:43:49 2.8 Flight characteristics
00:46:39 2.9 Brakes and undercarriage
00:49:37 2.10 Droop nose
00:51:31 3 Operational history
00:51:40 3.1 1973 Solar Eclipse Mission
00:52:07 3.2 Scheduled flights
00:56:34 3.3 British Caledonian interest
00:58:40 3.4 British Airways buys its Concordes outright
00:59:34 3.5 Operating economics
01:01:08 3.6 Other services
01:02:22 3.7 Retirement
01:05:00 3.7.1 Air France
01:07:10 3.7.2 British Airways
01:10:37 3.8 Displays and restoration
01:12:15 3.9 Return to service plan
01:13:48 4 Operators
01:14:08 5 Accidents and incidents
01:14:17 5.1 Air France Flight 4590
01:18:34 5.2 Other accidents and incidents
01:21:58 6 Aircraft on display
01:22:19 7 Comparable aircraft
01:22:28 7.1 Tu-144
01:24:30 7.2 SST and others
01:25:48 8 Impact
01:25:57 8.1 Environmental
01:28:50 8.2 Public perception
01:30:36 8.3 Special missions
01:32:04 8.4 Records
01:34:26 9 Specifications
01:38:05 10 Notable appearances in media
01:38:15 11 See also



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The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde () is a French-British turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph or 2,180 km/h at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued flying for the next 27 years. It is one of only two supersonic transports to have been operated commercially; the other is the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144, which operated in service from 1977 to 1978.Concorde was jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) under an Anglo-French treaty. Twenty aircraft were built, including six prototypes and development aircraft. Air France (AF) and British Airways (BA) were the only airlines to purchase and fly Concorde. The aircraft was used mainly by wealthy passengers who could afford to pay a high price in exchange for the aircraft's speed and luxury service. For example, in 1997, the round-trip ticket price from New York to London was $7,995 ($12.5 thousand in 2018 dollars), more than 30 times the cost of the cheapest option to fly this route.The original program cost estimate of £70 million met huge overruns and delays, with the program eventually costing £1.3 billion. It was this extreme cost that became the main factor in the production run being much smaller than anticipated. Later, another factor which affected the viability of all supersonic transport programmes was that supersonic flight could only be used on ocean-crossing routes, to prevent sonic boom disturbance over populated areas. With only seven airframes each being operated by the British and French, the per-unit cost was impossible to recoup, so the French and British governments absorbed the development costs. British Airways and Air France were able to operate Concorde at a profit, in spite of very high maintenance costs, because the aircraft was able to sustain a high ticket price.
Among other destinations, Concorde flew regular transatlantic flights from London's Heathrow Airport and Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New  ...