At the 2. March 1969 first took the “prototype 001” of the Concorde in Toulouse, in the southwest of France for the test flight. The machine with the retractable nose was jointly developed by the French Airbus-predecessor Sud-Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation, today BAE Systems. The Concorde was the first Supersonic aircraft for passengers: Russia was already gone, in 1968, the Tupolev 144 at the Start. Seven questions for the anniversary.
when was the first commercial launch?
Seven years later, on 21. January 1976. The maiden flights of the airlines Air France and British Airways combined Paris, Rio de Janeiro and London with Bahrain.
the speed at which the Concorde flew?
The machine with the triangular wings flew more than two times the speed of sound and reached 2500 kilometers an hour. The Concorde did not offer space for around a hundred passengers who arrived in New York from Paris or London in three and a half hours – even half as much as the actual flight time of around eight hours.
How many liters of kerosene consumed in the Concorde?
The Supersonic aircraft was designed before the oil crisis, and consumed a lot of kerosene: The four engines swallowed per passenger between the ages of 14 and 17 litres per 100 kilometres – four Times as much as a present-day airliner, an average of four litres on 100 kilometres.
How loud the Concorde was?
At the Start of a Concorde were measured is 119.4 decibels – the equivalent to a thunderclap. From 110 decibels of pain is achieved for the people through, for example, circular saws and pneumatic hammers.
How expensive is the Concorde?
passengers had to for a return flight from Paris to shell out to New York last 8100 Euro. The total cost for the operation by Air France and British Airways have never been quantified exactly but it is assumed that up to ten billion Euro, an astronomical sum.
Why was discontinued the Concorde?
On the 25. July 2000 crashed a Concorde, a few minutes after its launch in Paris. A total of 113 people were killed, including 97 German. The machine exploded, after you Start on a metal part of the catch that had lost to a machine in the US company Continental.
The disaster heralded the end of Concorde: On 31. May 2003, Air France and most recently completed a flight on the 24. In October of the same year, British Airways. Today, the machines, among other things, in the art Museum in baden-württemberg-Sinsheim as well as in Paris and Toulouse.
there Will be a new Supersonic aircraft?
especially in the USA, research on a Concorde successor: The US space Agency Nasa is working with the defense contractor Lockheed Martin on a “X-Plane”, which should be relatively quiet. The test flight is scheduled for 2021. The private aircraft Builder Boom Supersonic developed a similar machine, to go in 2023 at the Start. Also, Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the development of a new commercial Supersonic aircraft.
(jd/AFP)
Created: 03.03.2019, 15:46 PM
