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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
Name: Concorde Producer: Anglo-French consortium BAC-SNIAS Country: France Category: civil, passenger, long-distance Additional data: Concorde – civil supersonic airliner - a joined work of English and French producers. English part made 2/3 part of all work on propulsion system, French about 60% of all glider and its system construction and design. 2nd of March 1969 - First flight of the Concorde (TU-144 first flew was on the 31st of December 1968). Concorde had a series of modifications through all of his history to improve power and economy characteristics of the airliner. After the accident on the July 5, 2000 Concorde is not flying any more. The last Concorde flight was on the 24th of October 2003. For the 20 years of commercial flights Concordes have transported about 3.7 million passengers. Engines: Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 Mrk610 turbojet Dimensions: wing span (m): 25.57 length of the aircraft (m): 61.66 Height of the aircraft (m):12.2 Wing area (sq.m.): 358.25 Seating capacity: crew: 3-4 Passengers: 125 Max: 144 Mass and load: take-off (ton): 185.00 Empty and equipped (ton): 78.696 landing (ton): 111.130 pay load (kg): 11.340 Fly data: cruising speed (km/h): 15600 Take-off speed (km/h): 360 Loading speed (km/h): 300 Operation limit (m): 18288 Take-off start (m): 1510
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