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The Concorde

History of the Concorde project actually goes back to a 1955 proposition for a supersonic transport aircraft.  The British aircraft producer Bristol Aviation, under the 1956 Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee, or STAC, developed a model known as the Type 198.  The Type 198 could fly across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound.  Power was to have been provided by eight engines.  It had a slender fuselage and delta wing.  A delta wing is a large single wing which takes the place of a main wing and tail horizontal stabilizer.  Delta wings are efficient for high speed flight, but are not suited for low speed performance.  The slender fuselage and delta wings would later be seen on Bristol's smaller four-engine Type 223.  The Type 223 could carry 110 passengers, and was designed to operate the London to New York route.
     Almost coincidentally, at the same time Bristol had proposed the Type 223, Sud Aviation of France had proposed the Super Caravelle.  Named for an earlier jetliner built by that company, the Super Caravelle was strikingly similar in overall configuration to the Type 223.  The two governments suggested that they work together to reduce development costs, and on November 29, 1962, an agreement to jointly produce the aircraft signed.  BAC, or the British Aircraft Corporation, which had acquired Bristol, and Aerospatiale, which absorbed Sud Aviation, worked on the airframe.  Work on the Olympus 593 Mk 610 afterburning turbojet engines was divided between Bristol Siddeley of Britain, which was eventually taken over by Rolls-Royce, and SNECMA, or Societie Nationale d'Etude Compagnie Moteurs d'Avions, of France.
     A sleek, narrow-body jet airliner was the result of the collaboration of the two nations.  The name 'Concorde' was finally agreed upon, albeit after much debate.  Anthony Wedgewood Benn, the British Minister of Technology in 1967, joked at Concorde's roll-out eremony that the only disagreement between the two countries during the development was whether or not to use an 'e' in the spelling.  To paraphrase Mr. Benn, the name British Concorde was to be spelled with an 'e' as well, significant for Excellence, England, Europe, and Entente.
     As the Concorde was the first attempt to produce a supersonic airliner, new problems that had not been an issue in the development of fighter aircraft faced the manufacturers.  First, Concorde was to have a pressurized cabin, which fighters did not, as they used oxygen tanks with masks for the crew.  Also, the issues of sonic booms and atmospheric friction had not yet been addressed.  Throughout development, various measures had to be taken and much research done to combat these problems.
     The Concorde prototypes were designated Concorde 001 and 002, from France and Great Britain respectively.  Concorde 001 first flew at Toulouse, which is now the testing facility for airliner manufacturer Airbus Industrie, on 2 March 1969, while 002 first flew from Filton on 9 April of that same year.  Two pre-production aircraft, Concordes 10 and 02, were also produced, and later upgraded to definitive production standard aircraft and renamed Concorde 101 and 102 respectively.  Concorde 001 was the first to fly supersonic, or faster than the speed of sound, which is approximately 740 miles per hour at sea level.  This flight occurred on 1 October 1969.  The first flight past Mach 2, or roughly 1360 miles per hour, was on 4 November 1970, by the same aircraft.
     The prototype Concordes were smaller than the production model.  The production aircraft featured longer front and rear fuselages, more powerful engines, new nose visors which protect the windshield at high speed and improve streamlining, and differently shaped wings.  Concorde 101, the first aircraft to incorporate these changes, first flew on 17 December 1971 from Toulouse.  Concorde 102 flew from Filton on 10 January 1973.  The first actual definitive production standard aircraft, Concorde 201, first flew at Toulouse on 6 December 1973, while its British counterpart, Concorde 202, flew from Filton on 13...

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