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Concorde
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Key facts
- Aircraft.name
- Concorde
- Aircraft.image
- British Airways Concorde G-BOAC 03.jpg
- Aircraft.image_caption
- A Concorde after takeoff in 1986
- Aircraft.alt
- Concorde against a blue sky, seen from below. Its wheels are lowered.
- Aircraft.aircraft_type
- Supersonic airliner
- Aircraft.first_flight
- 2 March 1969
- Aircraft.introduction
- 21 January 1976
- Aircraft.national_origin
- France and United Kingdom
- Aircraft.status
- Retired
- Aircraft.primary_user
- British Airways
- Aircraft.more_users
- Air FranceSee Operators below for others
- Aircraft.produced
- 1965–1979
- Aircraft.number_built
- 20 (including 6 non-commercial aircraft)
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- supersonic transport
- Operator
- British Airways
- Mass
- 185065
- Manufacturer
- BAE Systems
- Image
- 00 4916 Concorde of Air France.jpg
- Height
- 12.2
- Length
- 61.66
- Significant event
- Air France Flight 4590
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- Commons category
- Concorde
- first flight
- 1969-03-02
- Commons gallery
- Concorde
- total produced
- 14
- service retirement
- 2003-11-26
- service entry
- 1976-01-21
- wingspan
- 25.56
- wing area
- 358.25
- maximum operating altitude
- 60000
- vehicle range
- 6580
- powered by
- Olympus 593
- maximum thrust
- 677200
- topic's main category
- Category:Concorde
- different from
- Concorde
- cruise speed
- 2179
- wing configuration
- delta wing
- price
- 20000000
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Encyclopedic overview
52 sectionsContents
- Development
- Early studies
- Slender deltas
- Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee
- Ogee planform selected
- Partnership with Sud Aviation
- Cabinet response, treaty
- Naming
- Sales efforts
- Testing
- Programme cost
- Design
- General features
- Powerplant
- Heating problems
- Structural issues
- Range
- Radiation concerns
- Cabin pressurisation
- Flight characteristics
- Brakes and undercarriage
- Droop nose
- Operational history
- First flights and routes flown
- Retirement
- Operators
- Accidents and incidents
- Air France Flight 4590 accident and grounding
- Other accidents and incidents
- Accidents
- Incidents
- Aircraft on display
- Comparable aircraft
- Tu-144
- SST and others
- Impact
- Environmental
- Public perception
- Special missions
- Records
- Specifications
- Notable appearances in media
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
- Legacy
- Articles
- Videos
Concorde ( , ) is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).
Studies began in 1954 and a UK–France treaty followed in 1962, as the programme cost was estimated at £70 million (£ in ). Construction of six prototypes began in February 1965, with the first flight from Toulouse on 2 March 1969.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Concorde” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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