Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner

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I hadn’t appreciated the level of cover up that had occurred with this crash - assuming that the official report was the true story. I found this to be a real page turner, which highlighted how “human factors” played a far more important role than a simple strip of metal on the runway.

Mike also provides a novel glimpse at what it meant to be an airline pilot in the glory days of post-war air travel. Concorde thereafter gained a new lease of life, notably branching out into the lucrative charter market.What is quite shocking is how the French team removed components the British wanted to examine and claimed records such as those about the fuel tanks had been lost.

If you select Prototype or Pre-production test you will see how Concorde was developed into a flying aircraft. Visit Concorde - England You selected Englandto go and visit Concorde, Please select from the map where in England you would like to go and see one of these fantastic and unique aircraft.If, like me, you never saw Concorde fly in-person but its legend is somewhere in your peripheral vision, you will enjoy this book and appreciate an aircraft that has bridged Apollo Space Programme with the marvel of the Airbus A380. He and Concorde are a key reason why I have pursued and achieved my dream of flying commercial large swept wing jets at the age of 26.

Concorde was ideal for time-pressed international businessmen and women needing to cross the Atlantic quickly, cutting the eight-hour journey by more than half, and also helped film stars and television presenters raise their profiles on both sides of the Pond. With no passengers or baggage, the aircraft weighed 120 tonnes, but she could carry 65 more tonnes, so we had 65 tonnes of excess thrust available - that's a lot of power.Once he was established, Mike gives a good feel of what it was like in the early days when Concorde was in its prime and gives a few amusing anecdotes of a bygone age when passengers could wander onto the flight deck. The supersonic aircraft that scraped the edge of space Nearly two decades after the Concorde fleet was grounded for good, a former chief pilot tells the remarkable story of the ahead-of-its-time jet plane that carried 2.