That explanation sounds pretty good to me - thnx Matthew. Liam. YVR. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Montano" <mmontano@xxxxxxxxx> To: "The Airline List" <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Liam Tully" <lrtully@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: Last flight AF Concorde MPEG video today... > I think I can successfully answer both. > > Concorde departs out of JFK on their only super-long runway (one of the > longest in the world) to minimize fuel consumption. As for the > altitude, the Concorde, like a heavily loaded A340 doesn't exactly have > scorching lift characteristics, especially fully loaded with fuel & > pax, and about to run near to it's range limit. There could of been > other reasons though. > > The bank is to avoid the arrival flight path for either of La Guardia's > runways. Even the LGA arrivals to the west (from say DCA) travel > straight over Brooklyn and join the arrival path about 10 miles to the > east-southeast of LGA with a hard 100 degree turn to the left. > > As for noise abatement, I think you could bury the Concorde 100 ft > underground and it still wouldn't past noise-abatement muster. ;-) > > Matthew > > On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 01:33 PM, Liam Tully wrote: > > > Me too! And why did it remain so low? > > > > Great stuff Carlos - I love it. Have played > > it about 400 times (loud) so far.... > > > > Liam. > > YVR. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mark" <mgreenwood@xxxxxxxxx> > > To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 1:23 PM > > Subject: Re: Last flight AF Concorde MPEG video today... > > > > > >> I am curious why the aircraft banked so quickly after take off. Is > >> that > > for > >> noise abatement? > >> > >> Mark