Flight Concords facts
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Concorde flew so high passengers received twice the dose of radiation from flying in a conventional aircraft, which was believed to increase cancer risk. The flight deck contained a radiometer so they could descend in case of a solar storm.
The Concorde supersonic jet stretched during flight due to the heat it generated. On its final flight the crew placed their hats into a crevice in the floor which appeared during the flight, as the aircraft cooled the crevice closed, permanently sealing their hats in the aluminum airframe.
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The Concorde supersonic jet stretched during flight due to the heat it generated. On its final flight the crew placed their hats into a crevice in the floor which appeared during the flight, as the aircraft cooled the crevice closed, permanently sealing their hats in the aluminum airframe.
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Bret and Jemaine of Flight of the Concords were rumored to be denied funding by New Zealands TV3 because Bret and Jemaine's humor was deemed "too Wellington", meaning their humor would not work with the average New Zealander outside of Wellington.
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On the last flight of the Concorde, Jeremy Clarkson emptied a glass of water on Piers Morgan.
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The first flight of Concorde with passengers following its only accident in 2000 was on September 11, 2001, landing shortly before the Twin Tower attacks started.
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On this day, October 24, in 2003, Concorde (“The Rocket”) completed its last commercial passenger flight, ending three decades of supersonic travel, landing at Heathrow airport at 1605 BST, after departing New York 3½ hours earlier.
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I learned Jermaine Clement from Flight of the Concords performed David Bowie-inspired songs on both Rick & Morty ("Moonmen") and Moana ("Shiny").
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Concorde had to be painted white, which reduced the aircraft's in-flight surface temperature by 6 - 11 degrees Celsius (42 - 51 degrees Fahrenheit)
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The Concorde expanded up to 30cm while in supersonic flight.
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The first Concorde flight with passengers after the 2000 Paris crash landed in NYC shortly before the WTC attacks on September 11th, 2001. The project was retired less than two years later citing post-9/11 slump in air travel.
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The lowered nose of the Concorde airplanes was only for pilot visibility during take-off and landing. The nose-cone was raised during flight. - source
The Concorde was a commercial aircraft, and one of only two capable of supersonic flight. It could travel from Paris to New York in 3.5 hours. Most flights took 8 hours to cover the same distance.
The Flights of the Concords once wrote a charity song from lyrics given to them by little kids
The statistically most dangerous commercial aircraft to ever fly was the Concorde (11 fatal flights per million), followed by the 737 Max (4 fatal flights per million) - source
Concorde 001 broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight in 1969.
A Concorde’s taxi to the end of a runway used as much fuel as a 737’s flight from London to Amsterdam
Concorde crashed on July 25, 2000. Concorde grounded all planes afterwards. 14 months later, British Airways flew a test flight with their Concorde staff. The day they flew was Sept. 11, 2001.
Concorde Flight 4590 crashed in Paris, France on July 25, 2000, killing all 109 people on board. The first Concorde flight with passengers following the accident took place on the morning of September 11, 2001, landing shortly before the World Trade Center attacks.
Concorde flight 4590 crashed due a freak "single cause" incident. A 200 gram metal strip, that a previous flight lost during take off, caused the tires to explode and a 5kg piece of tire hit one of the fuel tanks, which caused it to rupture from within
