Concorde Facts
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| Capacity |
100 passengers and 2.5 tonnes of cargo |
| Seating |
100 seats, 40 in the front cabin and 60 in the rear cabin |
| Range |
4,143 miles (6,667 kms) |
| Engines |
Four Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593s, each producing 38,000lbs of thrust with reheat |
| Take-off speed |
250mph (400kph) |
| Cruising speed |
1,350mph (2,160kph/Mach Two) up to 60,000 ft |
| Landing speed |
187mph (300kph) |
| Length |
203ft 9ins (62.1m) |
| Wing span |
83ft 8ins (25.5m) |
| Height |
37ft 1in (11.3m) |
| Fuselage width |
9ft 6ins (2.9m) |
| Fuel capacity |
26,286 Imperial gallons (119,500 litres) |
| Fuel consumption |
5,638 Imperial gallons (25,629 litres) per hour |
| Maximum take-off weight |
408,000lbs (185 tonnes) |
| Landing gear |
Eight main wheels, two nose wheels |
| Flight crew |
Two pilots, one flight engineer |
| Cabin crew |
Six |
| First commercial flight |
London Heathrow to Bahrain, BA300 on 21 January 1976 (Captain Norman Todd) |
| Last commercial flight |
New York JFK to London Heathrow, BA2 on 24 October 2003 (Captain Mike Bannister) |
