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Concorde had to stop for ground refuelling something like 4 times on the London-Sydney trip. Each time it took about an hour and a half to come down from cruisi
by cstross 11y ago
Concorde had to stop for ground refuelling something like 4 times on the London-Sydney trip. Each time it took about an hour and a half to come down from cruising altitude and land, slurp up a hundred tons of jet fuel, and take off again.
Short legs.
- logfromblammo 11y agoIn-flight refueling is a solved problem for military aircraft. It has never worked out for commercial airlines, though.