Concorde flies at 1220 m.p.h.
(N.Z.P.A -Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Oct 11. The British prototype of the Concorde supersonic jet airliner yesterday reached its fastest speed and greatest height—more than 1220 miles an hour at 45,100 feet The flight made along the 800-mile “Boom Alley” test route from Scotland to SouthWest England, provoked new protests about noise. A Truro Cathedral official laid that the aircraft’s sonic boom sounded like a landmine, and in Wales the chairman of the St David’s Civic Trust called for a law banning all supersonic flights directly over land. At Loughborough University, experts who had monitored the boom said the noise effect had been muffled by heavy cloud. I
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32425, 12 October 1970, Page 13
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