SST Concorde

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Aerospatiale/BAE Concorde is a beautiful Supersonic Airliner plane, way way Better than the TU-144. In 2, March, 1969, Concorde had its first flight, it entered service in 1976. Only 20 Concorde were built. They flew regular flights from Londow, Paris to New York, Washington. The Concorde very is famous, it takes normally for a plane to take like 8hrs to go from London or Paris to New York but for the concorde its 3.5hrs. Concorde flys up to more than 50,000ft and goes mach 2(normal airliners only go like 0.85). It can carry over 100 passengers for more than 3,000nm. British Airways and Air France uses them, Singapore Airlines also use them(all af, ba, sq's are retired). On July, 25, 2000 A Air France Concorde operating as Air France 4590 crashed after takeoff from Paris, When rotating up there was fire on the left wing, the crew shut a engine down, pilot plans to land at Le Bourget Airport which is straight ahead, but it can't retract the landing gear and hanged in the air due to low speed, It stalled and crashed into a hotel, a total of 113 people died, no one on the plane surived, it was the only crash of a concorde. After the crash concorde was grounded, those other concorde was allowed to return back from New York with no passengers. Investigation says that a thing fell of from a continental airlines DC-10 which had taken off before the Concorde, the Metal Strip went to burst the tyres of the Concorde and the tyres hit the fuel tank and exploded, but it had to first cause a spark, so they said it went and hit a wire in the concorde also, which caused the spark, but other sayings about why it crashed continues. After fixing the tyre problem on Concordes they plan to resume Concorde Services. But just before Service Resumed, the September, 11th attacks took place and caused a market drop in passenger numbers, even after Concorde resumed service, they were retired in late 2003. Air France ended Concorde flights in May, 2003, British Airways ended the flights in October 2003. I did a flight from KSFO and Landed in KDFW, i was taxiing on the pic.

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:46:48 GMT

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