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- I have a dream to become a Concorde pilot Part 1: Learning to fly
In two parts Captain Tony Yule tells us about his career as a Concorde pilot with British Airways In part 1 he describes the Concorde pilot training programme he undertook and in part 2 he reveals tales of his adventures piloting Concorde
- How the Concorde Was Developed and Tested | Dewesoft
Test pilot Jean Pinet (France, 1929-) conducted many of the most complex high-speed and high-altitude flight trials, including tests of fuel transfer systems and center-of-gravity controls He was the first person to pilot Concorde at supersonic speeds
- Concorde – how the supersonic airliner was tested and
Where the giant Airbus A380 only took 20 months from maiden flight to certification with a 2,500-hour flight test programme, Concorde’s revolutionary technology needed more than 5,000 hours, utilising eight aircraft during the almost seven-year-long flight test programme
- Concorde Pilot Training - Airliners. net
describes the training of Concorde pilots in some detail Here are a few short extracts: 'On Concorde the simulator training lasts 76 hours - 19 4 hour details (50 hours are spent on the B747-400) ' 'The trainee must pass several tests on the simulator '
- EARLY HISTORY - SUPERSONIC PROVING - CONCORDE SST
After two periods in the Concorde flight simulator at Toulouse, each pilot flew 001 up to the speed of Mach 1 2 (850mph), for which it had been cleared by the flight test programme They were also free to nominate any of the many types of failure that had been investigated, such as an engine failure in flight or a three-engine landing
- What it was like to pilot the supersonic Concorde jet
On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s
- The Life Times Of British Concorde Test Pilot Brian Trubshaw
Brian Trubshaw played a significant role in the development and testing of Concorde Trubshaw flew the first test Concorde aircraft on their delivery flights After his time with Concorde, Trubshaw continued his career as a test pilot and later became one of BAC's directors and general managers
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