Modification To Concorde?
<N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) PARIS, July 4. France’s two leading aircraft manufacturers have announced an agreement to study whether to fit the Bri-tish-French Concorde supersonic airliner with a “moustache” —small nose-fins to improve its landing and take-off performance. These fins might increase the payload that the sleek, droop-nosed airliner can carry, and thus help to overcome one of the problems that may face it—the relatively small number of passengers (about 135) it can accommodate.
The French prototype today made its twenty-seventh test flight from its home airfield at Toulouse, in south-west France. The flight lasted 90 minutes.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32032, 5 July 1969, Page 13
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