My visit to the Queen of the skies "The Concorde"

It was a bright and windy day and my mom and dad told me, my brother that we were going to the Manchester airport viewing gallery in which you could see planes landing and taking off and we were going to see the Queen of the skies, Concorde in a massive building.                            

When we came we ate some snacks and then I got the camera and took a lot of pictures of planes. I came back and went in a mini plane to see inside. We ate our lunch and went into the building to see the Concorde. There was a guide how showed us the Concorde.  He showed us the nose and it goes up and down so the pilot can see what’s under him. Then we went inside and the seats were awesome. The guide told us that the Concorde goes 60,000feet above ground and it is 3times faster than the sound. Then we went into the cockpit and the pilot showed us the controls and other things.  We then went out of the plane.     

 He showed us the front wheels, the engine exhaust and the back wheels. On our way out, we went to the plane shop, where got a certificate and some facts about the plane. We then saw some more planes. At the end we saw Emirates A380, which is world's largest passenger plane !!! We later went to the bus stop, where we boarded the bus, which brough us back home.

Concorde facts:

Capacity:

1] 100 passengers and 2.5 tonnes cargo

Seating:

2] 100 seats, 40 in the front  cabin and 60 in the rear cabin

Takeoff speed:

3] 250mph [400kph]

Landing speed:

4] 187 mph [300kph]

Wings span:

5] 83ft 8ins [25.5]

Length:

6] 203ft 9ins [62.1]

Maxium takeoff wiegth:

7] 408, 000ibs [185 tonnes]

Landing gear:

8] Eight main wheels, tow nose wheels

Flight crew:

9] Two pilots and 1 flight engineer

Cabin crew:

10] Six

 J J