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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Air France Concorde (caption)
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Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Concorde, Fox Alpha, Air France:
The first supersonic airliner to enter service, the Concorde flew thousands of passengers across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound for over 25 years. Designed and built by Aérospatiale of France and the British Aviation Corporation, the graceful Concorde was a stunning technological achievement that could not overcome serious economic problems.
In 1976 Air France and British Airways jointly inaugurated Concorde service to destinations around the globe. Carrying up to 100 passengers in great comfort, the Concorde catered to first class passengers for whom speed was critical. It could cross the Atlantic in fewer than four hours – half the time of a conventional jet airliner. However its high operating costs resulted in very high fares that limited the number of passengers who could afford to fly it. These problems and a shrinking market eventually forced the reduction of service until all Concordes were retired in 2003.
In 1989, Air France signed a letter of agreement to donate a Concorde to the National Air and Space Museum upon the aircraft’s retirement. On June 12, 2003, Air France honored that agreement, donating Concorde F-BVFA to the Museum upon the completion of its last flight. This aircraft was the first Air France Concorde to open service to Rio de Janeiro, Washington, D.C., and New York and had flown 17,824 hours.
Gift of Air France.
Manufacturer:
Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale
British Aircraft Corporation
Dimensions:
Wingspan: 25.56 m (83 ft 10 in)
Length: 61.66 m (202 ft 3 in)
Height: 11.3 m (37 ft 1 in)
Weight, empty: 79,265 kg (174,750 lb)
Weight, gross: 181,435 kg (400,000 lb)
Top speed: 2,179 km/h (1350 mph)
Engine: Four Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 Mk 602, 17,259 kg (38,050 lb) thrust each
Manufacturer: Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale, Paris, France, and British Aircraft Corporation, London, United Kingdom
Physical Description:
Aircaft Serial Number: 205. Including four (4) engines, bearing respectively the serial number: CBE066, CBE062, CBE086 and CBE085.
Also included, aircraft plaque: "AIR FRANCE Lorsque viendra le jour d’exposer Concorde dans un musee, la Smithsonian Institution a dores et deja choisi, pour le Musee de l’Air et de l’Espace de Washington, un appariel portant le couleurs d’Air France."
Image from page 243 of “American horses and horse breeding : a complete history of the horse from the remotest period in his history to date. The horseman’s encyclopedia and standard authority on horses, embracing breeds, families, breeding, training, sho
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Identifier: americanhorsesho00dimo
Title: American horses and horse breeding : a complete history of the horse from the remotest period in his history to date. The horseman’s encyclopedia and standard authority on horses, embracing breeds, families, breeding, training, shoeing, and general management. The modern and practical horse doctor on the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of diseases of all kinds
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dimon, John
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : J. Dimon
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University
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^ a good deal of steady work he was almost cer-tain to run away as soon as he was suffered to go fast; with thework that most horses required he would be almost or quiteunmanageable, Yet there was no vice about him, but the exuberance of hisspirit was such that when he was at all indulged he would runaway from mere fun. I
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OLD-TIME TROTTERS. 195 LADY SUFFOLK. Lady Suffolk was a giay mare, bred in Suffolk County,Long Island, N. Y., by Leonard W. Lawrence of Smithstown.She was foaled in 1833 ; lier sire was Engineer, 2d, a thorough-bred son of Engineer by Imported Messenger, and her dam wasDusky Jane by Don Quixote, a son of Imported Messenger.She was, consequently, a strongly in-bred Messenger mare.She was sold at weaning time to R. F. Blaydenburgh for ,She was again sold when four years old to David Br3^ant for2.50. When young she was an iron gray in color, but inher old age she became almost white. She was about fifteenhands one inch in height; she was well and strongly built,long in body, back a little roached, powerful, long quarters,hocks let down low, short cannon bones, pastern joints fine,shoulders good, slim but muscular neck, a rather large, long, bonyhead, and big ears. Her feet were small and crimpy — calledmulish feet — but were sound and as tough as iron. Her first appearance on t
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