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Landing Concorde required a minimum of 6,000 feet (1,800 m) runway length; the shortest runway Concorde ever landed on carrying commercial passengers was Cardiff Airport. [148] Concorde G-AXDN (101) made its final landing at Duxford Aerodrome on 20 August 1977, which had a runway length of just 6,000 feet (1,800 m) at the time.
The aircraft is now fully retired and no longer functional. [92] AF Concorde F-BTSD was retired to the "Musée de l'Air" at Paris–Le Bourget Airport near Paris; unlike the other museum Concordes, a few of the systems are kept functional. For instance, the "droop nose" can still be lowered and raised.
As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.
In 2003, Lewis Whyld took an instantly classic photograph of the Concorde on its last flight, soaring over the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, United Kingdom.
(203) was the Concorde lost in the crash of Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000 in the small town of Gonesse, France near Le Bourget, located just outside Paris, killing 113 people. The remains of this aircraft are stored at a hangar at Le Bourget Airport. It is the only Concorde in the history of the design to be destroyed in a crash.
The original Concorde prototype 001 made its first test flight in 1969 from Toulouse Airport. [2] The specific modified version of the aircraft used for this experiment was the Concorde 001 registered as F-WTSS. [2] The aircraft has four twin-spool Olympus 593 engines and two onboard inertial guidance systems.
Concorde landing Serious work on SST designs started in the mid-1950s, when the first generation of supersonic fighter aircraft were entering service. In Britain and France, government-subsidized SST programs quickly settled on the delta wing in most studies, including the Sud Aviation Super-Caravelle and Bristol Type 223 , although Armstrong ...
A list of the aircraft in the collection is given on the museum website. [6] The aircraft on display are: Aero S-103 (613677), Czechoslovakian licence-built version of the MiG-15; Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde G-BOAA. This is displayed as "Scotland's Concorde" and is the focus of "The Concorde Experience" which opened on 16 March 2005