When analysing the financial problems the triangle plane faced, there is a general agreement that the main issue, which the Concorde project suffered from was the development budget ,that jumped from 70 million £ initially to an overwhelming 1.3 Billion £, making the commercialisation of the airplane even harder. However, the difficulties were not...
While modern aircrafts take more than 7 hours to complete the same journey, the Concorde, with its supersonic speed, made it possible for humans to interconnect distant locations in a ridiculously short amount of time. With just 20 units built, the british- french twinjet was the first and the last supersonic jet to operate commercially. It is...
You have probably noticed this tiny hole at the bottom of every aircraft's window you have ever flown and wondered what purpose does it serve!
On the 22.02.1987, the A320 family had it's first flight and was first introduced by Air France in April 1988.
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The 787 Dreamliner twinjet in its GE-GEnx version has broken the record again and almost reached its maximal range of nearly 16,000 kms . An engineering beauty that ,on a Air Tahiti's non-stop flight from Papeete to Paris,surpassed its previous, as well as the A350-XWB numbers.
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