Why was concorde retired

Concorde sonic boom
Concorde air france
Airplane record

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MOMARSAT : MONITORING THE MID ATLANTIC RIDGE

The data acquired during the campaign are available online:

The data acquired by the EMSO-Açores observatory since its deployment in 2010 at the Lucky Strike site are made available to the scientific community in the form of DOIs. The portal for accessing data from French observatories is the EMSO-France website, created in 2015.

https://www.ifremer.fr/fr/infrastructures-de-recherche/observer-les-fonds-marins-sur-le-long-terme

Number of accesses and downloads of EMSO Azores pages since 2015 (Data F. Merceur)

Geographical distribution of file downloads between 2015 and 2020 (Data F. Merceur)

List of data sets associated with the observatory and Momarsat cruises

Cumulative dataset

Laes Agathe, Sarradin Pierre-Marie, Cannat Mathilde (2020). CHEMINI total dissolved iron concentrations from the EMSO-Azores observatory. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/74430

Dataset 2023-2024

Sarrazin Jozee, Matabos Marjolaine, Sarradin Pierre-Marie, Gautier Laurent, Chauvet Adrien (2024). SMOOVE, video data from EMSO-Azores obse

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André Turcat

Major André Édouard Turcat (23 October 1921 – 4 January 2016) was a French Air Force pilot and test pilot celebrated for flying the first prototype of Concorde for its maiden flight.^[1]

Turcat was born on 23 October 1921 in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) into a family in the automotive industry. He studied at Ecole Polytechnique.

Biography

After graduating from École Polytechnique in 1942, Turcat joined the Free French Air Forces during the final years of World War II and stayed with Armée de l'Air after the war. During the Indochina War, Turcat served as a pilot of C-47 transport aircraft and demonstrated exceptional skills in handling a number of flight emergencies, thus earning an assignment to EPNER, France's test pilot school.

Shortly after graduating, Turcat took over the test campaign of the Nord 1500 Griffon, one of the world's first ramjet-powered aircraft. During this successful program, Turcat flew the Griffon at Mach 2.19, a feat that earned him the prestigious Harmon Trophy in 1958. A few months later (25 February 1959), Turcat