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  2. Air/Space America 88 - Wikipedia

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    Air/Space America 88 was an aviation exposition and airshow held at San Diego, California 's Brown Field in late May of 1988. It was planned to be the western hemisphere's answer to the Paris Air Show and would be held every even year when the PAS was in hiatus. It was a mammoth event that attracted exhibitors from all over the world, including ...

  3. Concorde - Wikipedia

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    Concorde. Concorde ( / ˈkɒŋkɔːrd /) is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies started in 1954, and France and the UK signed a treaty establishing the development project on 29 November 1962, as the programme cost ...

  4. Brown Field Municipal Airport - Wikipedia

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    969. Asphalt. Brown Field Municipal Airport ( IATA: SDM, ICAO: KSDM, FAA LID: SDM) is in the Otay Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States, 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Downtown San Diego and named in honor of Commander Melville S. Brown, USN, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1936. Its main runway is 7,972 feet (2,430 m ...

  5. Concorde’s last flight: Is this the greatest aviation ... - AOL

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    Lewis Whyld in 2003, the year he photographed the Concorde. This photograph was taken on his first-ever attempt at aerial photography. He was in a plane with his friend, who was training to fly at ...

  6. The supersonic plane that was faster than Concorde - AOL

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    Its inaugural flight — 60 years ago in September 1964 — kicked off a golden era for supersonic aircraft. The plane would later achieve a speed of just over 2,000 miles per hour, nearly 50% ...

  7. André Turcat - Wikipedia

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    Major André Édouard Turcat (23 October 1921 – 4 January 2016) was a French Air Force pilot and test pilot celebrated for flying the first prototype of Concorde for its maiden flight. [1] Turcat was born on 23 October 1921 in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) into a family in the automotive industry. He studied at Ecole Polytechnique .

  8. Consolidated Aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Consolidated Aircraft (and later Convair) had their headquarters in San Diego, California, on the border of Lindbergh Field (KSAN). Consolidated's first design was one of those purchased by Fleet from Dayton-Wright, the TW-3 primary trainer, sold to the U.S. Army as the PT-1 Trusty. In September 1924 the company moved from the Gallaudet plant ...

  9. Concorde aircraft histories - Wikipedia

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    F-WTSS (production designation 001) was the first Concorde to fly, on 2 March 1969, and was retired on arrival at the French air museum at Le Bourget Airport on 19 October 1973, having made 397 flights covering 812 hours, of which 255 hours were at supersonic speeds. Concorde 001 was modified for the 1973 solar eclipse mission with rooftop ...

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