The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde (/ˈkɒŋkɔːrd/) is a Franco-British supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies started in 1954, and France and the UK signed a treaty establishing the development project on 29 November 1962, as the programme cost was estimated at £70 million (£1.39 billion in 2020). Construction of the six prototypes began in February 1965, and the first flight took off from Toulouse on 2 March 1969. The market was predicted for 350 aircraft, and it received up to 100 options from many major airlines. On 9 October 1975, it received its French Certificate of Airworthiness, and from the UK CAA on 5 December. Concorde is a tailless aircraft design with a narrow fuselage permitting a 4-abreast seating for 92 to 128 passengers, an ogival delta wing and a droop nose for landing visibility. It is powered by four Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 turbojets with variable engine intake ramps, and reheat for take-off and acceleration to supersonic speed. Constructed out of aluminium, it was the first airliner to have analogue fly-by-wire flight-controls. The airliner could maintain a supercruise up to Mach 2.04 (2,167 km/h; 1,170 kn) at an altitude of 60,000 ft (18.3 km). Delays and cost overruns increased the programme cost to £1.5-2.1 billion in 1976, (£9.44 billion-13.2 billion in 2020). Concorde entered service on 21 January of that year with Air France from Paris-Roissy and British Airways from London Heathrow. Transatlantic flights was the main market, to Washington Dulles from 24 May, and to New York JFK from 17 October 1977. Air France and British Airways remained the sole customers with seven airframes each, for a total production of twenty. Supersonic flight more than halved travel times, but sonic booms over the ground limited it to transoceanic flights only. Its only competitor was the Tupolev Tu-144, carrying passengers from November 1977 until a May 1978 crash, while the larger and faster Boeing 2707 was cancelled in 1971. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 ran over debris on its takeoff run and crashed with all 109 occupants and four on ground killed; the only fatal incident involving Concorde. Commercial service was suspended until November 2001, and Concorde aircraft were retired in 2003 after 27 years of commercial operations. Most aircraft are on display in Europe and America.

To keep the dream alive and to ensure that as many people as possible can approach an aircraft that has left its mark not only on Air France but on aviation history, the company is donating its entire Concorde fleet Concorde has been accepted by and will subsequently be shown at the following aviation institutions:

• The National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, United States
The ferry flight took place on Thursday 12 June 2003.
• Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, France
The ferry flight took place on Saturday 14 June 2003, the day the Paris Air Show is inaugurated by French President Jacques Chirac.
• Sinsheim Museum, Germany
The ferry flight took place on Tuesday 24 June 2003.
• Airbus, Toulouse, France, pending the opening of an air and space museum.
The ferry flight took place on Friday 27 June 2003.
• Concorde F- BVFF, currently undergoing a major overhaul, is scheduled to go on display at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport.

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