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THE CONCORDE

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Have you ever heard of this plane ? The concorde . Like this plane .. It was the only super sonic commercial plane that existed in the whole aviation world till now apart from soviet built TUPOLOV TU-144. Here we will see some of the amazing facts and many more things about this iconic plane. CONCORDE TUPOLOV TU-144 Concorde is a British-French  turbojet -powered  supersonic passenger   airliner  that was operated from 1976 until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the  speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph or 2,180 km/h at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued flying for the next 27 years Concorde was jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later AĆ©rospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) under an Anglo-French treaty . The name CONCORDE   came from this as concorde means agreement , harmony and union. In 1965, Aerospatiale started buildi

The story behind long-haul flights

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➡Recently QANTAS flight qf-9 created   history by connecting Australia and Europe by direct flight. It took almost 17 hous and 20 mins to cover this enormous distance.   Previously QANTAS was connecting this route with the super jumbo A380 , but this time they are depending upon their super efficient BOEING 787-9 dreamliner. To fly non-stop over 17hours is not an easy task . you need many things to work properly and correctly to achieve this.Let's get into the past and see how a simple rule changed aviation and how we can fly 17 hours fully non-stop. The B-787 Dreamliner touching down  When we go back in history of the commercial aviation , in 1960’s no American   twin engine aeroplanes are allowed to fly anywhere from 60 minutes diversion airport because they believe that if one engine fails the other engine can fly the plane for about an hour. On north-Atlantic routes like new-york's JFK to London's  HEATHROW the planes can not fly directly . Either they fly th