British Airways Concorde Plane Model Airplane: A True Work of Art

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Concorde British Airways History:

The elegantly simple lines of the Concorde, optimized for economical cruising speed of just over Mach 2, tend to disguise the complexity of both aerodynamics and systems of this pioneering SST. Fourteen of these supersonic airliners are in service.

Concorde first flew on March 2 1969 and was first introduced on January 21, 1976. The aircraft was initially referred to in Britain as "Concorde," with the French spelling, but was officially changed to "Concord" by Harold Macmillan in response to a perceived slight by Charles de Gaulle. In 1967, at the French roll-out in Toulouse the British Government Minister for Technology, Tony Benn announced that he would change the spelling back to "Concorde." This created a nationalist uproar that died down when Benn stated that the suffixed "e" represented "Excellence, England, Europe and Entente (Cordiale)."Concorde takes off at 220 knots (250mph) (compared with 165 knots for most subsonic aircraft). She cruises at around 1350mph - more than twice the speed of sound - and at an altitude of up to 60,000 ft (over 11 miles high). A typical London to New York crossing would take a little less than three and a half hours as opposed to about eight hours for a subsonic flight. Traveling Westwards, the five-hour time difference meant Concorde effectively arrived before she left. She travels "faster than the sun".

Since the last commercial Concorde flight on October 24 2003, the British Airways fleets of seven Concordes have gone to their final resting places at museums around the world.