20 ANOS sem o CONCORDE. Teremos outro avião comercial SUPERSÔNICO?

Video from the channel Aero Por Trás da Aviação about Concorde, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 17:50. Language: Portuguese. Video type: Documentary.

Explanatory piece published on the twentieth anniversary of the Concorde's retirement. It reviews its last flights in 2003 and examines whether there will be another supersonic commercial aircraft.

The program began in 1962 and the first flight took place on 2 March 1969. Air France was the first to retire it: its last commercial flight, from New York to Paris, was on 31 May 2003 with the F-BTSD, and on 27 June the F-BVFC flew from Paris to Toulouse, where it is displayed at the Aeroscopia museum. British Airways' last commercial flight, on 24 October 2003, carried the G-BOAG from New York to Heathrow; that same day the G-BOAF and the G-BOAE flew over the Bay of Biscay and also landed at Heathrow. The very last flight of all was on 26 November 2003: the G-BOAF, the last Concorde built (number 216), flew from Heathrow to Bristol Filton with chief pilot Mike Bannister and a hundred employees on board. The video cites the 2000 accident, the high cost and the drop in demand after September 11 as factors in its end.

20 aircraft were built: six prototypes and 14 operational, seven for each airline. The G-BOAF spent 23 years with British Airways and logged more than 18,000 hours and over 6,000 flights, 5,639 of them supersonic. The G-BOAD at New York's Intrepid museum was being restored. As a possible successor, it presents Boom's Overture: 60 to 80 passengers, Mach 1.7, a 32 m wingspan versus the Concorde's roughly 25 m, and entry into service planned for 2029. Its demonstrator, the XB-1, had only carried out taxi tests in Mojave, at 89 knots. To reduce the sonic boom, it cites Lockheed Martin's X-59.