During takeoff and landing, Concorde flew at a steep angle, with its front end tilted skyward and its tail pointing down. If a conventional plane were in this position, its nose would block the ...
Concorde has started her run; she's gathering speed at nine knots a second. 110 tons of plane. Now at this moment Turcat is pulling up the nose…now with the smoke and dust rising from the tail ...
One way Concorde engineers solved this problem was by designing an aircraft with a sleek body, Farina said, including a narrow passenger cabin and extended tail cone. Engineers also used a delta ...