The Concorde, the last and one of only two large passenger jet aircraft in history, retired over twenty years ago. Many ...
Before it was banned in the UK, the Concorde could reach speeds of Mach 2. For reference, modern fighter jets, which are smaller than the Concorde, fly at speeds between Mach 1.2 to Mach 2.5 ...
The supersonic aircraft was famously thirsty. Concorde burned 20 tonnes of jet fuel an hour, nearly four times as much as a modern Airbus A350. And because she could only carry 100 passengers ...