Concorde SST Design Development and Testing

This book traces the history of the only supersonic airliner to date to enter regular route service with British Airways and Air France. It tells the stroy of the challenges faced during the design and development the new materials and advanced systems and equipment to be used and installed by the engineers while it had a long gestation period during which time the subsonic widebody's took the market for British Airways and Air France each with eight airplanes in the end it was a profitable airplanes this book covers the prototype and pre-production airplanes and the extensive flight testing undertaken be fore the CAA issued thier C-of-A.