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Where can I visit a Concorde?

On display at:
  • Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway. Chantilly, Virginia 20151. ...
  • Intrepid: Sea, Air & Space Museum. Pier 86. West 46th Street and 12th Avenue. New York, New York 10036. ...
  • The Museum of Flight. 9404 East Marginal Way South. Seattle, Washington 98108-4097. www.museumofflight.org.




You can visit the legendary Concorde at several prestigious aviation museums across the globe. In the United States, prominent displays include the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia (part of the Smithsonian), the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, and the Museum of Flight in Seattle. In the United Kingdom, you can explore G-BOAF at Aerospace Bristol or visit the Imperial War Museum Duxford and the Brooklands Museum. France also hosts several, most notably at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace at Le Bourget near Paris and the Aeroscopia Museum in Toulouse, where the aircraft was originally built. These exhibits often allow you to walk through the narrow cabin, providing a firsthand look at the supersonic engineering that once enabled passengers to cross the Atlantic in under three and a half hours, famously arriving in New York "before they left" London or Paris.

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But because of the time savings, and the elite status of flying the Concorde on these routes, airlines were able to charge a premium rate of $12,000 round-trip. The jet only had to fly at 50% capacity to break even.

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Such speed didn't come cheap, though: A transatlantic flight required the high-maintenance aircraft to gulp jet fuel at the rate of one ton per seat, and the average round-trip price was $12,000.

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Concorde is sadly no longer flying, but it is still possible to visit some of the remaining 18 airframes, there are others not open to the public but you can still see them.

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In real life, Diana took several trips aboard the Concorde, both with Prince Charles and solo.

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About Concorde 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 subsonic flight.

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Technical, financial, and regulatory hurdles make a return to the skies extremely unlikely. Concorde is an aircraft that captures the imagination and is instantly recognizable even to non-aviation fanatics.

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The aircraft quickly proved itself unquestionably as it reached speeds of up to 1,354 mph. To put that into context, that is around 800 mph faster than a Boeing 747 and over 350 mph faster than the earth spins on its axis!

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The North American X-15 may be the fastest plane in the world, with speeds at 4,520 mph and Mach 5.93. It's an experimental aircraft used and powered by NASA and USAF.

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Concorde was also popular with the Queen and celebrities. Joan Collins travelled with the aircraft so frequently that she became something of an ambassador for the service. Other notable passengers included Elton John, Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor and Sean Connery.

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Overtures toward commercial supersonic flight Overture will be a successor to the last commercial supersonic aircraft, the Concorde, which operated between 1969 and 2003.

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