Product Description

An in-depth study of not just Concorde, but also the Tupolev TU-144, the only two supersonic transports that made it into production and service. Alongside the fascinating development of both these aircraft, he also examines the many projects in Britain, France and the U.S. that never made it beyond the drawing board. A full account of the first Concorde accident (25 July 2000 - Paris) is also given here.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2578540 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

An excellent look at the Aerospatiale / BAC Concorde
The Airlife's Airliner series of books cover individual commercial aircraft types in an interesting, in-depth manner.

Each volume of this British series covers a unique commercial aircraft type from its design, production, entry into service, its usage by airlines, and in some cases eventual demise.

Each volume features plenty of color and black and white photographs of the subject aircraft along with a complete construction list (accurate to date of publication for aircraft types still being built).

This volume covers, unfortunately, almost the entire operational life of this amazing aircraft. The only successful SuperSonic passenger airliner (there was only one other - the Russian Tupolev Tu-144 (which actually flew first)) the Concorde has plied the skyways between London and Paris and New York City.

Always interesting and always able to draw a crowd of on-lookers, this elegent airliner is about to ffly its last flight as Airbus Industrie has declined to continue supporting the existing fleet of aircraft. Fortunately ... both Air France and British Airways have decided to donate all of the airframes to aviation museums located around the world ... so that future generations may marvel at what could have been the next revolution in commercial air travel.