Why This Supersonic Plane Will Never Work - Concorde

Start your free 30-day Audible trial by visiting or text “foundandexplained“ to 500 500! #ad #sponsored The Concorde was going to change the way we fly. But the Concorde actually had far more orders beyond the two carriers British Airways and Air France. Who were these other airlines, where would they have flown the plane and why did these deliveries never happen? On a brisk winter morning in 1972, the Concorde and the future had arrived down under. Officials at Qantas lined up, to place at this point a no brainer order. So far the plane had been ordered by both British Airways and Air France, whose parent countries had spent billions developing the Concorde. But no other airline had managed yet to receive the aircraft. Both airlines had 7 aircraft each. The first option agreement after these two airlines was Pan Am, who optioned six aircraft in 1963, and then opt