Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport (SST). It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued commercial flights for 27 years.
Among other destinations, Concorde flew regular transatlantic flights from London Heathrow (British Airways) and Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (Air France) to New York JFK, profitably flying these routes at record speeds, in less than half the time of other airliners.
With only 20 aircraft built, their development represented a substantial economic loss, in addition to which Air France and British Airways were subsidised by their governments to buy them. As a result of the type’s only crash on 25 July 2000 and other factors, its retirement flight was on 26 November 2003.
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Concorde, the only commercial airline that has conquered the sound barrier, one of the best aerodynamic designs. A powerful, supersonic transport, able to travel in any condition. It flew like Icarus and not even melted by the heat of the sun, but melted by the heat and pressure of market strategy and protest of the environmentalists, and soon it retired. one can only see in places like air museum but never to get it's first hand experience.
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