Concorde
Objective : To analyse the Anglo French Concorde project to design and build a supersonic airliner including detailed stakeholder analysis and the reasons behind the slippage and budget escalation
Introduction :
The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a supersonic passenger airliner or supersonic transport (SST). It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aérospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation.Concorde’s maiden flight in March 1969 carried the hopes and aspirations of thousands of people who had contributed to the most ambitious technological project in Europe's history. Concorde service commenced in 1976 and continued for 27 years. It flew regular transatlantic flights from London Heathrow (British Airways) and Paris Charles de Gaulle (Air France) to New York JFK and Washington Dulles, flying these routes at record speeds, in less than half the time of other airliners.
As a result of the aircrfat’s only crash (on 25 July 2000), influences due to the 9/11 attacks, and other factors, its operations ceased on 24 October 2003. The last "retirement" flight occurred on 26 November that year
This Aircraft is famous on two counts: firstly, it is the only commercial, Supersonic Jet Powered Aircraft flying; second, it has proven to be commercially unsuccessful project. Technologically, the Concorde is brilliant. And yet, regardless of this undoubted brilliance, it has proven to be a commercial failure. The French & British engineers were then so blinded and in love with their own technological brilliance that they could not possibly concede that their brilliant conception was unlikely to ever be a commercially viable proposition.
Project Analysis :
Purpose of the project :In 1954 two crashes of the Comet, the world’s first jet airliner, shocked the British aircraft industry and left America supreme in first-generation big jets. The Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at Farnborough, to its dismay, found
Introduction :
The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a supersonic passenger airliner or supersonic transport (SST). It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aérospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation.Concorde’s maiden flight in March 1969 carried the hopes and aspirations of thousands of people who had contributed to the most ambitious technological project in Europe's history. Concorde service commenced in 1976 and continued for 27 years. It flew regular transatlantic flights from London Heathrow (British Airways) and Paris Charles de Gaulle (Air France) to New York JFK and Washington Dulles, flying these routes at record speeds, in less than half the time of other airliners.
As a result of the aircrfat’s only crash (on 25 July 2000), influences due to the 9/11 attacks, and other factors, its operations ceased on 24 October 2003. The last "retirement" flight occurred on 26 November that year
This Aircraft is famous on two counts: firstly, it is the only commercial, Supersonic Jet Powered Aircraft flying; second, it has proven to be commercially unsuccessful project. Technologically, the Concorde is brilliant. And yet, regardless of this undoubted brilliance, it has proven to be a commercial failure. The French & British engineers were then so blinded and in love with their own technological brilliance that they could not possibly concede that their brilliant conception was unlikely to ever be a commercially viable proposition.
Project Analysis :
Purpose of the project :In 1954 two crashes of the Comet, the world’s first jet airliner, shocked the British aircraft industry and left America supreme in first-generation big jets. The Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at Farnborough, to its dismay, found