BAC Concorde Cockpit Controls Layout Fleet Air Arm Museum Yeovilton Somerset. XAV 1393-307
Concorde 002 was the second prototype of this Anglo-French aircraft. She was assembled in Britain and made her maiden flight from the British Aircraft Corporation's plant at Filton, Bristol on the 9th April 1969. The first French prototype Concorde 001 flew from Toulouse, France a month earlier on the 2nd March 1969. The main purpose of Concorde 002 was to act as a test and development aircraft for the fleet of 16 Concordes that were to be built for Air France and British Airways. Concorde 002 first achieved supersonic speed on the 25th March 1970 when she reached the speed of Mach , she hit her maximum speed of Mach about 1,350 mph on the 7th October 1971. On completion of her test programme she arrived at RNAS Yeovilton in July 1976, and was placed on permanent display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. This marked the end of her test career, which lasted seven years but was the start of a glorious career educating the British public on a marvel of modern technology. The first commercial flight of Concorde was on the 21st January 1976 when British Airways Concorde 206, G-BOAA departed London Heathrow and Air France Concorde 205, F-BVFA departed Paris-Charles de Gaulle, bound for Bahrain and Rio, respectively. Concorde's first commercial service to the United States started on the 24th May 1976 with a record breaking journey time of 3hrs 30mins. A subsonic airliner, for example a Boeing 747, would take 7-8 hours to make the same trip. Concorde was able to carry 100 passengers with an average ticket price of £2,500 on the transatlantic flights until they were retired in October 2003.
Size: 5288px × 3512px
Location: Fleet Air, Arm Museum, Yeovilton. Somerset. England. United Kingdom.
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -, ., 002, 10in, 184ft, 2, , 205, 2in, 38ft, 4, 83ft, aft, air, aircraft, arm, aviation, bac, break, bristol, british, cameras, caution, cockpit, compensate, concorde, controls, corporation/sud, difficulty, embarrassing, envelope, expansion, exploded, fitted, fleet, flight, flyable, flying, front, greatest, handling, height, image, incorrectly, initial, landing, layout, left, length, lot, mach, main, manufacturers, max, mention., miles, mirror, museum, myths, nose, olympus, passenger, period, phase, pilot, plant, pointing, power, predicted., prevent, problems, professed, progress., prototype, range, rapid, rate, real, recalled, reheat, showed, siddeley, significance, somerset, speed, supersonic, taxying, thought, tv, versa., vice, virtually, wheel, wheels., wingspan, yeovilton
