Before Concorde, there were several other British and French programs in the works that helped with the research and development of such a supersonic program. One project was the Bristol 188 ...
Bob Angles (pictured left) received a visit from Sir George White, the grandson of the founder of the Bristol Aeroplane Company The oldest surviving Concorde engineer, who turned 103 this year ...
Sir Richard Branson has stepped up his battle to keep Concorde flying by raising his ... such as the British Aerospace factory at Filton near Bristol where the planes were designed and built.
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We remain confident that Concorde (currently grounded following the July accident) will fly again soon ... broken the sound barrier as it flew over the Bristol Channel with 53 passengers on ...
A PLANE that could fly ... Concorde crashed just minutes after taking off from Paris in July 2000. The disaster killed all 109 people on board and four others on the ground. The plane ran ...
Concorde's fuel guzzling ... as several factors over the years gradually made it difficult for British Airways and Air France to fly the plane. Aircraft manufacturers always market their latest ...
It took over 5,000 hours of ... remained less than 300 mph. Concorde's air intake system, developed 40 years ago, is still leading-edge technology today. Flying at Mach 2—roughly 1,350 miles ...
They subsequently took action to open up a conversation based on the work, adding a sign in front of the painting that said the gallery is willing to have “dialogue on the issue”. Passersby ...
The last Concorde flight took off in 2003, and the Intrepid Museum added one of the jets to its collection that same year. A total of 20 Concorde planes were built, and 14 flew commercially through ...
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