Concorde

The BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde 101/102 (French "harmony, unity") was a supersonic transport plane for passenger traffic. The flight across the Atlantic between Paris and New York was approximately 3 to 3.5 hours, the altitude was 15 kilometres after the start and then rose gradually to 18 km. The Concorde was developed by the French and British aviation industry on the basis of a government agreement of 29 November 1962 jointly developed and reached a maximum of 2.23 Mach (2405 km / h). She was a parallel development of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144. The cell was developed by Aerospatiale (now EADS) and the British Aircraft Corporation (now BAE Systems) developed and built the Olympus 593 engines from Rolls-Royce (Bristol Siddeley) and SNECMA. The Concorde was after 15 years of development time in 1976 in the regular service. It was often in the press as the "queen of the skies" [1]. Until the crash of a Concorde on 25 July 2000 were recorded in its 27 years of service no major accidents or problems.