The Concorde - Episode 282
Unprofessional Engineering
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The First Aircraft to Fly by Wire
It was the first aircraft ever to be fly by wire. It could burn two tons of fuel just taxiing to the runway. And then last but not least, it flew at such high altitudes that it would often interrupt the missions of us byplanes. One of these suckers would cost about 200 million dollars.
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