BY the time it has obtained its Certificate of Airworthiness and has entered airline service in the early seventies, the Concorde supersonic airliner will have been proved in the most intensive and comprehensive testing programme ever organised in support of a civil aircraft project. Although at first sight this may seem a sweeping claim, such a programme is an obvious prerequisite to the certification of an airliner that will for much of its working life operate in an entirely new environment and cruise at a speed more than twice that achieved by the fastest subsonic types.


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    Title :

    Proving the Concorde


    Subtitle :

    A description of the Concorde testing programme leading up to the certification of the first SST from the British Aircraft Corporation



    Publication date :

    1969-01-01


    Size :

    5 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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