Concorde Interior 1970s

The prototype plane helped convince american.

Concorde interior 1970s. The first ever concorde to land on american soil which paved the way for supersonic atlantic crossings for the rich and famous is to open to the public. A new design thrust reverser aft tra engine nozzle was specified to improve weight aerodynamic and noise qualities for production type. Especially if you were shuttling between london and new york a route which the streamlined jet conquered in barely three hours.

Step back in time to a supersonic blast from the past as australian business traveller steps inside the nbsp concorde for this access all areas photo tour. It had more like office chairs bucket seats and very small windows. Concorde the first supersonic passenger carrying commercial airplane or supersonic transport sst built jointly by aircraft manufacturers in great britain and france the concorde made its first transatlantic crossing on september 26 1973 and it inaugurated the world s first scheduled supersonic passenger service on january 21 1976 british airways initially flying the aircraft from.

For nbsp almost three decades from the mid 70s to 2003 the concorde was the only way to fly nbsp ndash. British airways concorde passenger interiors from the 1970s british airways concorde passenger interiors 1993 2001 during may and june of 1993 concorde g boaf completed her d check she was then returned to the ba engineering building at heathrow known as tbb. The only reason i was able to fly so much was because of concorde my grandpa said referring to his monthly business trips from miami to london and back in the 1970s and 1980s.

The other is the soviet built tupolev tu 144 which operated in the late 1970s. It is one of only two supersonic transports to have been operated commercially. Twenty aircraft were built including six prototypes and development aircraft.

A former british airways concorde called alpha foxtrot was the last of the supersonic airliners to be built. Concorde 002 g bsst flew for the first time at mach1. Concorde was jointly developed and manufactured by sud aviation later aérospatiale and the british aircraft corporation bac under an anglo french treaty.

The olympus 593 engine made the longest single test run it ran continuously for 300 hours which was the equivalent of nearly 100 trans atlantic concorde flights.