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Imagine taking off from London's Heathrow airport at 9 a.m.
and after an immaculately smooth flight arriving in New York
before 8 o'clock that same morning. It was possible on
Concorde, which routinely made the trans-Atlantic flight in
three and a half hours (making it 12:30 p.m. London time when
you landed but just 7:30 a.m. in New York). Covering a mile in
2.7 seconds, Concorde was, above all, built for speed. On our
cross section of the aircraft, explore how various features of
Concorde were designed and engineered for high-altitude,
supersonic flight. To launch the
interactive, click on
the image at left.—Susan K. Lewis
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