Concorde's Engines Reach 750,000 Flying Hours
Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 engines, which power the Concorde supersonic transport, have amassed 750,000 flying hours, 480,000 of them at greater than the speed of sound. The aircraft made its first flight in 1969 and was put in commercial service in 1976 by British Airways and Air France. Its...
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