G-BBGD British Airways Concorde

Information about the Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde

The Concorde development project was undertaken under a 1962 international treaty between Great Britain and France, design, development and construction being undertaken by British Aircraft Corporation and Aerospatiale, it was to be the world's first and possibly last supersonic airliner. Twenty Concordes were built, six for development and 14 for commercial service, all but two still exist in a preserved state at various locations around the world, the aircraft above is Concorde 202, this was the second test prototype, it was never used commercially but carried out much of the type certification and test test flights and last flew in 1982 and is now on display at the Brooklands Museum in Weybrige UK.

Concorde facts:

• Concorde first flew on the 2nd of March 1969

• Concorde was the worlds first airliner to fly supersonic (cruise speed Mach 2.02  or 1,330 mph)

• Concorde was the worlds first and last airliner in commercial service to have supercruise capability

• Concorde had a maximum cruise altitude of 60,000 feet (18,300 metres), twice that of other airliners.

• Concorde was the worlds first ever civil airliner to utilise a fly-by-wire flight control system

• Concorde was the first airliner to be fitted as standard with an anti-lock braking system British Airways and Air France Concordes were first operated commercially on the 21st  of January 1976

• The world's most notorious air-crash was Air France Concorde Flight 4590 which crashed in Gonesse, France, on the 25th of July 2000 after having it's tyres ruptured on take-off by a piece of a titanium thrust reverser fallen from a Continental Airlines DC-10 just a few minutes earlier

• Concorde circumnavigated the world in 31 hours and 51 minutes in November 1986

• Concorde made it's last commercial flight on the 24th October 2003, and it's last ever flight on the 26th of November 2003
  

Information about British Airways - BA

British Airways was initially Founded as "Imperial Airways" during 1924 following the merger of Instone, Handley Page, Daimler Airways and British Air Marine Navigation. In 1939 the British government decided to nationalise Imperial Airways and British Airways and named the resultant company British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). In 1972 BOAC and BEA were combined to create British Airways, the UK's national airline, in 1987 British Airways was privatised. In 1988 BA acquired British Caledonian, and in 1992 acquired Dan-Air making it the second largest airline in Europe. BA currently is operating a mixed fleet of mainly Airbus and Boeing airliners.

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