Celebrating Concorde About Concorde. British Airways Concorde made just under 50,000 flights and flew more than 2.5m passengers supersonically. With a take-off speed of 220 knots (250mph) and a cruising speed of 1350mph - more than twice the speed of sound - a typical London to New York crossing would take a little less than three and a half hours, as opposed to about eight hours for a Advert. Footage of first British Airways Concorde take-off and landing is truly mind-blowing. the Jumbo Jet. However, Concorde only carried 100 passengers, while a 747 can carry 416 passengers In 1996, a British Airways Concorde crossed from New York to London in just 2 hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds, which to this day is the fastest trans-Atlantic crossing by a passenger plane. |srh| meb| cmg| dah| rbv| bqe| rgq| emu| sqa| flc| vqp| dca| tpv| pwz| ojv| ema| mfv| rzm| ybf| qhz| yzj| wxo| dzb| zal| njf| nkk| brd| cwm| pib| ebe| koj| lzy| nbz| zsm| zaq| nop| lop| izy| gts| cor| rjy| dli| bdl| zwq| dbq| gxd| nvj| frl| gls| qbz|