Building Concorde: From drawing board to Mach 2 by Tony Buttler, Jean Christophe Carbonel
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Overview: In Building Concorde, renowned aviation author and historian Tony Buttler explores in detail the design, construction and testing of this extraordinary airplane. A huge design and test effort, involving many different research aircraft, explored every aspect of Concorde s proposed design and operation before the first prototype even took to the air. The Concorde program also marked a then unprecedented cooperation between rival aircraft manufacturing nations.
The well-known French aviation author and historian Jean-Christophe Carbonel has contributed to the bookazine and the result is an account of the French contribution to the Concorde project often overlooked in previous works on the aircraft.
