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Writes Lystseva Marina
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Promised Concord proshlomesyachnoy from a trip to the Airbus plant in Toulouse.
Those who have read me in the summer, you may remember, I was disappointed by the fact that in July Toulouse trip we did not have time to visit the Museum of the plant Airbus. We have several times at high speed flew past him on the bus and I drool, looking tail Concord.
So, it happened! Frosty sunny morning we had set aside an hour to inspect the very first Concorde and Airbus - A300.

So, Concorde. In my favorite is the French consent. This Anglo-French aircraft, one of the two types of supersonic passenger aircraft are in commercial operation. Second - our Tu-144.

Serial number 201, registration F-WTSB.
First flight: December 6, 1973 Last: April 19, 1985
The raid hours: 909
Where: Museum of Aviation Plant Airbus, Toulouse, France





Concorde in the museum stands next to a fence and to find the right angle, you have to be inventive.
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Specifications
Crew: 3 (Captain, pilot, flight engineer)
Seating capacity: 92 (from the Air France), or 100 (at British Airways), the maximum allowed: 128
Length: 56, 24 m
Wingspan: 25, 57 m
Height: 12 19 m
Wing area: 358 m² 6
Elongation of the wing: 1, 85
Sweep angle on the leading edge from 60 ° to 80 °
Empty weight: 78,700 kg
Maximum takeoff weight: 187,700 kg
Payload weight: 12 000 kg
The mass of fuel 95 680 kg
Engines: 4 × Turbojet Rolls-Royce / SNECMA «Olimpus» 593

Flight characteristics
The maximum speed of 2330 km / h (2, 2 M)
Cruising speed of 2150 km / h (2, 02 M) [6]
Practical range: 6470 km (with a load of 8845 kg at M = 2, 05 at an altitude of 16 000 m)
Ferry range: 7250 km
Service ceiling: 18,300 m
Rate of climb: 25, 41 m / s
This view from the outside, and in non-museum hours it can see any factory worker. For those interested in the tour must be ordered separately, with the group. When we visited the museum three groups, one composed of students.
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Nearby is the very first A-300 - about him and the rest of the museum a separate post.
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The history of the supersonic passenger aircraft dates back to the 50s when aircraft manufacturers broke the sound barrier. We engaged in serious study of the USA, the USSR, France and Britain.
Due to the fact that the production require significant costs, the British proposed to merge the French alliance. As a result, in 1962 the corporation British Aircraft Corp. (later British Aerospace, currently part of BAE Systems) and Aerospatiale (which became later EADS) have teamed up for the project Concorde.
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About two-thirds of the works on designing fell on the French side and in 1966 have been completed.
For the "Concorde" was chosen aerodynamic scheme "tailless" delta wing with low-ogival shape (from the French word ogive - arrow) with a variable sweep.
An important feature of supersonic passenger aircraft (PCA) is the use of the main electrical control system. The rigid mechanical connection remained in reserve. The decision was a novelty for the civil aircraft.
To improve the reliability of the systems, the ATP has three hydraulic systems: two main and one emergency.
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The first two prototypes were built at the same time in Toulouse and in the English Bristol.
Prototype number 001 was completed in early 1969, and 2 March 1969 made the first flight from the factory airfield in Toulouse. №002 took off in Bristol April 9th. By the way, our Tu-144 ahead of Concord for two months, first flew on December 31, 1968
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In June 1969 Concord №001 shown to the public at the air show in Le Bourget, and now you can see it there in the aerospace museum.
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Then there were built two pre-production models and two for static tests. The first commercial flights Concordes airlines British Airways and Air France began to perform on January 21, 1976, from Paris - Rio de Janeiro and London - Bahrain. Later added New Yrk. Dallas, Singapore, Caracas and Dakar.
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The aircraft was very noisy, expensive and environmentally unfriendly. In the early years the cost of operating Concordes taking on mainly governments of France and Great Britain. It was only after a series of improvements in the early 80s the plane began to be profitable airlines.
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By 1972, a variety of AK worldwide have placed orders for 74 Concord, but on a number of factors (the oil crisis, the appreciation of the aircraft and the appearance of 747), the majority withdrew their application and were sold only 5 aircraft of British Airways and 4 Air France
The remaining four of the 14 production aircraft have been proposed by him for the price of 1 pound.
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In the process of finalizing the engines have been improved, thus reducing the noise level and improve their efficiency.
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To reduce the impact of nitrogen oxides, ozone layer of the atmosphere, it was reduced operational range altitudes SPS and increased demands on the purity of exhaust gases, which has been achieved by reducing the compression ratio of the engine compressor.
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Due to the fact that on take-off and landing aircraft out at very high angles of attack, landing gear have unusually large height, about 3 to 5 m.
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Aerodynamics has been improved and refined passenger cabin.
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Interesting fact:

In flight, the aircraft accelerated to a speed of 2150 km / h. The maximum temperature in the bow reached 127 degrees Celsius, and the fuselage can lengthen up to 25 cm - due to the thermal expansion of the structure.
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Climb inside?
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At the entrance to the museum to use the table.
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Alliance SKYTEAM welcomed!
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The first room given to visitors at the mercy of so tightened ugly gray covers.
Here are 10 rows of 4 seats each.
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The second area is closed transparent partition and has 16 rows with 4 seats. Right pulled out three rows for unknown reasons.
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Economy this economy at an average cost of $ 5000 for a place
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A dream come true Oleg Konstantinovich - to sit in Concord. I also poplyuschila.
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To celebrate the fact that Dorval to rarity, forgotten to sit in the booth - at least for decency. Everything seemed abandoned yesterday, well-groomed and beautiful.
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Undetermined chests in the passage between the first and second cabin.
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Go to thoron very tasty - the cockpit.
At the entrance a sign - do not smoke, do not eat, do not thump!
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This picture visitors see the Concorde - through a transparent partition.
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Taking advantage of the absence of a guide (though maybe she would permit), dismantle the barrier and go into the cockpit.
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Everything is very compact and arranged quite closely.
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This is not the chair that long, it's a wide-angle effect.
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While fans of buttons, vklyuchalok-vyklyuchalok, displeychike steering wheels and cockpit view, here are some more interesting facts.

The fuselage nose cone is a cone that could deflect downward, providing an overview of the pilots on take-off, landing and taxiing. The fairing built movable additional glazing, glazing covers the main cockpit mode supersonic flight.
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Concord has not followed at a certain level, as conventional ships. Since the height of his flight (service ceiling - 18300 m), there was no air traffic used a better flight mode - continuous climb as relief plane due to running out of fuel. Flight and this mode is fully automatic.
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Avionics Konkordapozvolyala automatically carry out landing and trans-Atlantic flight in almost all weather conditions.
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Total operating Concord showed high reliability
Only accidents with accident July 25, 2000 in Paris, the Concorde was caused by collisions during takeoff on a metal part, taken away from other aircraft.
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The result was a damaged wheel that with pieces, damaged the fuel tank and the chassis control wires after take-off caused a fire, which broke the engine and the plane crashed to the ground. Killed 100 passengers and 9 crew members and 4 people on the ground.
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After this catastrophe flights Concordes have been temporarily suspended until the fall of 2001. And after several incidents, including the failure of one of the sections of the rudder and fuel leakage, povlёkshey engine shutdown, British Airways and Air France in April 2003 announced the decision to terminate commercial operation Concorde. The last flight took place on October 24, 2003 ...
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A November 26, 2003 was the day of the last Concorde flight.
G-BOAF (last built aircraft) took off from Heathrow, flying over the Bay of Biscay, made a pass over the Bristol, and landed at the airport in Filton ...
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Fly planes!
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