Selling the Concorde Available to Purchase

CONCORDE is on the verge of completing the most vital phase of its flight trials, the results of which should present the governments concerned and the airlines holding options on the aircraft with firm evidence of its ability to cruise at twice the speed of sound with the payload and range predicted. The whole of the flight test programme to date has been oriented towards achieving this goal in the shortest possible time. The prime necessity has been to prove the cruise performance to the airlines and this work is now virtually complete. The way is now clear for the manufacturers to sell in earnest to the airlines and to convert the options into firm orders.