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Old Sep 20, 2006, 12:09 pm
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Vulcan
 
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Originally Posted by the_traveler
I thought that I once heard that Concorde flew at 60K?
I belive that max Concorde altitude was 59,000 feet. It was highly dependent on temperature, wind, time of the year, latitude, etc. The highest we got on mine was 52,000. When flying, the Concorde crew just open the throttles wide and leave them alone until its time to decend.
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