Concorde Taking off

haha amen.... i couldnt agree more!!!! Im glad u guys built it before us.. urs is better than any of them... it's still sad though... i wish she was still flying.

It was sour grapes mate! They (your government) didn't like the idea that we'd built one before them!

True. She was more efficient supersonic than subsonic, but severely restricted by regulations and could only go supersonic over water.

She also came in just before ll the digital systems. A modern Y2K Concorde would have a very different flight deck.

She was retired for a combination of factors. Costs were rising, but so were tickets - plenty of people willing to pay. She was profitable ( once development costs were written off) and was paying her own way. The AF crash was caused by debris due to a lack of deflectors - these were recommended, but not fitted, to AF Concordes. BA Concordes had them.

The nail was that Aerospatiale had decided not to make any more spares, severely limiting the future life.

Oh, my father was a Captain on her.

its so noisy ;l

This is not true. TU-144 was a bit faster.

Fastest taking off passenger aircraft in the world. :D

I rode on the last flight it was nothing really.:0

It's pretty pathetic that the US Government wouldn't let her fly over US Airspace. She only came to Dallas-Ft. Worth twice I think?

You could almost say it's a STOL aircraft ;)

Really!? how much did you pay for a ticket when it was in service ??

it only fits 100

thank god ive flewn on it.

I think subsonic passenger jet is around 80 to 100 mpg per passenger

get your facts right before u slander someone.
Concorde was a tolally anologue controlled plane.

no, you might have taken that the wrong way, why i said that is because Bobbiec224 thought that A320 was the first with Digital Fly-by-wire, but it was concorde, i said concorde was made in the 60's because A320's were made in the 80's. I miss concorde :(

Why should that make any difference? It's a marvel of engineering, truly magnificent.

qrong, concorde got better fuel efeciency, at 17 miles per gallon per passenger.

dude concorde was made in the frigen 60's

Where do you see a S**t , l'Anglo-ricain?

are u F**king stupid - concorde was one of the first fly by wire planes

Correct- sorry- the A320 was the first with Digital Fly-by-wire (Because of the sidestick control)

No, it definitely wasn't. :-)

From wikipedia (not the best resource, but it is correct):

... Concorde was the first civil airliner to have an analogue fly-by-wire flight control system...

correct me if i'm wrong but is concorde taking off from bournemouth airport?

No it wasn't- it was the Airbus A320!