LEGENDARY
CONC
Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde
Concorde
“Mach 2 across the Atlantic. We had the future — and let it go.”
Aerospatiale/BAC · commercial
Length
202 ft 4 in
Wingspan
83 ft 10 in
Max speed
Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph)
Range
3,900 nmi
Ceiling
60,000 ft
Engines
4x Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593
Crew
3
Max passengers
128
Typical config
100 (1-class)
Built
20
Concorde crossed the Atlantic in 3.5 hours at twice the speed of sound. Only 20 were built. Nothing has gone that fast since.
Fun fact
Concorde flew so fast it would stretch 6-10 inches in flight due to heating of the airframe.
How to spot one
Delta wing, no horizontal tail, drooping nose. All retired since 2003 — if you see one, it's in a museum.
Crews call it
The Concorde
Sounds like
Afterburners on takeoff — a raw, thunderous scream unlike anything else in commercial aviation
One might be overhead right now.
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