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the future, but with worse fuel economy and better legroom for your ego.
means a supersonic passenger jet that flew faster than sound, cutting london-new york to under 3.5 hours, before economics grounded it.
from born from a 1962 anglo-french treaty so binding neither government could cancel it without a diplomatic incident, hence the name meaning agreement or harmony.
cruise speedmach 2.04, twice the speed of sound
nose trickthe nose drooped for pilot visibility on landing
lifespanflew commercially only 1976 to 2003
fuel burnguzzled roughly twice the fuel per seat
for instance
air france flight 4590 — 2000 paris crash that effectively ended the program
british airways g-boac — one of the last concordes, now displayed at heathrow
the concorde fallacy — economics term named after its sunk-cost overruns