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Fly British Airways Concorde London - New York, New York, USA
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British Airways Concorde-the supersonic flight
Remember when you could fly from London to New York in less than three and a half hours.
It cruised at around 1350 mph at an altitude of up to 60,000ft (11 miles). The record crossing stands at 2hrs 52mins 59secs.
Where is Concorde now?
The Concorde's are now located at:
- Museum of Flight, Dunbar, Scotland (G-BOAA)
- London's Heathrow Airport
- Airbus UK in Filton, Bristol, UK
- Manchester Airport, UK
- Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA, USA
- The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, NY, USA
- Grantley Adams Airport in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Short history of Concorde:
1962: Concorde was born out of separate French and British projects which joined forces.
1969: Concorde successfully completed its first supersonic flight on 1 October.
1972: The future looked bright. More than a dozen airlines had placed orders for the aircraft.
1973: Arab oil embargo. Price of fuel spiralled. Prospective buyers dropped out. People chose subsonic flights in jets able to carry more people more cheaply.
1979: Both French and British governments agree to put an end to production line of Concorde. In total there have been 16 planes and 88 engines manufactured.
23rd of July 2000: British Airways discloses that cracks had been found in the wings of all seven of its Concorde jets. Air France makes a similar disclosure the following day, having found cracks in four of its six Concordes.
25th of July 2000: An Air France Concorde flying to New York crashes outside Paris shortly after takeoff. 113 people were killed on board and four others on the ground.
April 2003: British Airways and Air France made simultaneous announcements that they would be permanently grounding the famous supersonic airliners in 2003. British Airways said Concorde would cease flying in the autumn because of "commercial reasons, with passenger revenue falling steadily against a backdrop of rising maintenance costs for the aircraft".
24th October 2003 Final British Airways Concorde lands at London's Heathrow Airport from New York beginning the era of supersonic public transport to an end.
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