Concorde's Birthday

CONCORDE, the world's fastest passenger plane, will soon be over 33 years old. It first flew on 2 March 1969 in France. Concorde was developed by both France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a dream of a supersonic passenger plane. In 1962 they started to work together on the project. The plane costr over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It was given over 5000 hours of testing. Concorde flies at twice the speed of sound .This means that it takes only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare with 7-8 hours in other passenger jets. Because of the five-hour time difference between the USA and Britain, it is possible to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave London! You can catch the 10:30a.m.flight from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour earlier !Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. Each Concorde is built at a cost of 55 million pounds. Twenty have been built so far. Air France and British Airway own the most. They each have seven planes.
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