Even when the plane reached its top cruising speed of 1,350 mph, the speed of airflow to the engines remained less than 300 mph. Concorde's air intake system, developed 40 years ago, is still ...

The Concorde passenger jet set a record when it flew between New York City and London in 2 hours, 52 minutes, 59 seconds. The ...

“It was only afterwards, when the Soviet aircraft came out and it looked remarkably like Concorde ... the air down that’s going into the front of the engine. We’d do that with the intake ...

The Wright Flyer, which made the world's first sustained, controlled heavier-than-air flight on December ... times the speed of sound; a complex engine intake and bypass system to prevent ...

The Concorde will be taken to a hangar and our engineers will take a look at the engine." The mid-air scare comes almost two years after Paris Concorde disaster in which more than 100 passengers ...

Impact Link For a fleeting 30 years during the 20th century, supersonic commercial air ... Concorde plane being constructed at a British Aircraft Corporation factory in Bristol, UK, in 1967. The ...

you can sense the staggering power which one of these Concorde engines develops. It's an Olympus 593. With its intake and exhaust pipes it's about as long as a single-seater fighter. Each one of ...

On October 24th, 2003 the last Concorde touched down ... an important first step in getting air travel to catch up with the rest of our modern lives. Jet engine technology has advanced quite ...

a horror accident saw 113 people killed when an Air France Concorde ran over a small piece of metal while taking off from Charles de Gaulle Airport. It caused the tyre to explode and the engine to ...

Modern aviation startups are working to revive supersonic passenger air travel with new ... noise of a busy tarmac or jet engine. The overhead bin space on the Concorde looked standard to me.