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Backtracking the runway Sometimes, we don’t have a taxiway to reach our take off spot!✨ So we have to backtrack the runway and use a turning pad to align ourselves It’s quite a challenging thing to do with a super heavy aircraft, using brakes and engines to maintain a speed between 5 and 10 knots! Tonight, I fly for the first time a Boeing 777F to Mexico So excited!
Cleared to line up, caution wake turbulence behind departing Concorde.
From that angle, almost thought she was back in service! ~~~
The Concorde was a supersonic passenger jet liner with a max speed of Mach 2.04, over twice the speed of sound! It is one of only 2 supersonic transport aircraft. (The other is the Tupolov, Soviet built ). For comparison, the B777 has a max of 0.89 (or 0.87 depending on model) with a typical cruise speed of 0.83.
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I remember where I was when I saw the images of the only fatal accident for Concorde fire, on departure. I was at the Comox airforce Base, as a cadet, on my glider scholarship course. Along with the cadets in my flight, I watched in awe, jaw dropping at the news scene we saw on the screens above us in the canteen. One claim was that a metallic strip on the runway caused the crash.
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A point I have kept in mind from that accident: Consider if you have a malfunction, to request the tower to conduct a runway inspection for possible debris, for other subsequent departing aircraft.
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Tribute post to the Concorde!
Air France 673 taxis out for departure with its GEnx-1B engines facing the setting sun.
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[F-HRBH, 787-9, 3 JUN 2019]
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