With a plane as iconic as Concorde, you\u2019d expect quite a few to have been built.<\/p>\n
But the fact is, only 20 were built: two prototypes, two pre-production aircraft, two development aircraft, and 14 production aircraft for commercial service.<\/p>\n
There were plans for many more than that, though.<\/p>\n
READ MORE! Everyone\u2019s in awe after seeing pictures of Concorde\u2019s cockpit for the first time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Back in the 1960s, 18 different airlines had put down orders for the yet-to-be-built Concorde, summing up 75 in total.<\/p>\n But, after a horrific crash that involved a Tupolev-144 at the Paris Air Show in 1973, all but two airlines canceled their orders.<\/p>\n <\/a>British Airways<\/p>\n Air France and British Airways<\/a> stuck with the project as their two governments were the ones financing and building them.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s why only 20 Concorde aircraft were built, with only 14 entering service, embarking on a total of 50,000 flights between them.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a shame really, as Concorde revolutionized the possibilities of air travel, flying twice as fast as other commercial planes.<\/p>\n Although Concorde is one of the most iconic planes to ever take to the skies, the plane flopped due to a number of issues.<\/p>\n <\/a>Alexander Jonsson \/ Wikipedia Commons<\/p>\n These ranged from poor business decisions to the devastating crash.<\/p>\n And then there was the mammoth cost of a Concorde plane ticket<\/a>.<\/p>\n To be expected really, when the aircraft could fly from London to New York in just three and a half hours.<\/p>\n To achieve this the plane had to travel two times the speed of sound, reaching Mach 2.04 (2,518 km\/h \/ 1,565 mph).<\/p>\n <\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/p>\n The plane was particularly popular with bankers, who could land in New York at an earlier time than they had left London.<\/p>\n All the more time to do cross-continental business.<\/p>\n But buying a ticket was no small feat.<\/p>\n <\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/p>\n The plane\u2019s capacity was really limited, only able to take 109 passengers at a time.<\/p>\n To put it in perspective, a\u00a0Boeing<\/a>\u00a0747 can take 800 passengers.<\/p>\n This meant tickets were really expensive, with a round trip across the Atlantic costing $12,000 in today\u2019s money.<\/p>\n The post You won\u2019t believe how many Concorde were supposed to be built<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n