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Concorde Specifications
Primary Function: Passenger Aircraft
Contractor: Aerospatiale and British Aerospace
Crew: 9 (3 Flight crew and 6 Cabin crew); up to 128 passengers
Unit Cost: N/A
Powerplant
  Four Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 Mk910 turbojet engines rated at 38,050 lb afterburning and 10,000 lb cruise thrust each
Dimensions
Length: 204 ft. 4 in.
Wingspan: 83 ft 10 in
Height: 28 ft. 8.5 in.
Weights
Empty: 173,500 lb
Maximum Takeoff: 408,000 lb
Performance
Speed: 1333 mph (Mach 2.04)
Ceiling: 63,000 ft
Range: 4,500 miles (max)
Armament
  N/A
Service Life
First Flight: October 1, 1969
End of Service: October 24, 2003
Number Built: 2 (prototypes), 2 (pre-production), 16 (production) [20 total]


Concorde Achievements
  • The Concorde was the first civil airliner equipped with an analogue fly-by-wire flight control system.
  • The Concorde was one of only two commercial passenger airliners to fly faster than the speed of sound.


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