WRITING 2 EZQUIEL BOLUDA REVERTE

 Concorde is the first supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane, built jointly by aircraft manufacturers in Great Britain and France. The Concorde made its first transatlantic cross on September 1973, and it inaugurated the world’s first supersonic passenger service on January 1976.

However, the aircraft’s noise and financial losses due to the high operational costs such as the cost of fuel and maintenance of the aircraft led both airlines to end up with their routes, eventually leaving New York City as their only regular destination, making its last flight in October 2003. 

Concorde had a maximum speed of 2,179 km per hour (more than twice the speed of sound), allowing the aircraft to reduce the flight time between London and New York to about three hours. The development costs of the Concorde were so big that they could never be recovered economically, and the aircraft was never financially profitable. Nevertheless, it proved that European and manufacturers could create complex airplanes, and it helped to ensure that Europe would remain at the technical forefront of the aerospace world.