A supersonic passenger airliner developed jointly by Britain and France, built by the British Aircraft Corporation and Aerospatiale under an intergovernmental treaty. It entered commercial service in 1976 and cruised at roughly Mach 2, more than twice the speed of sound, cutting the London to New York flight time to about three and a half hours. High operating costs, limited seating and a fatal 2000 crash led to its retirement in 2003; it remains the only supersonic airliner to see sustained commercial service. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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SignificanceThe only supersonic airliner to see sustained commercial service. 1 Manufacturer or BuilderBritish Aircraft Corporation and Sud Aviation 1 FAQs
Why did Concorde fly only over the ocean?
Sonic booms over land limited it to transoceanic flights.
Sonic booms over the ground limited Concorde to transoceanic flights only. Supersonic flight more than halved travel times, but the booms were the limit, which is why its main market was transatlantic flights.
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Concorde is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).
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Air France and British Airways remained the sole customers with seven airframes each, for a total production of twenty.
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Concorde ( KONG-kord, French: [kɔ̃kɔʁd] ) is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).
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The British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) was a British aircraft manufacturer formed from the government-pressured merger of English Electric Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Hunting Aircraft in 1960.
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