The Concorde, like nearly all current commercial aircraft, put the engines beneath the wings.

而协和式飞机与几乎所有的商业飞机一样，把引擎安置在机翼下方。

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Concorde was the first passenger aircraft to fly at supersonic speed.

协和式飞机是第一架超音速客机。

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Thus, the Concorde can half the time normally taken for journeys by the Boeing 747 and other conventional aircraft.

因此，协和客机可以只花一半的时间进行飞行，而飞行路线通常采取波音。

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Two earlier modified Concorde aircraft have previously flown from Heathrow over Iceland before returning to the UK as part of pre-service trials.

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Though the aircraft, which shares some of Concorde's DNA but is nowhere near as complicated, was able to return to the skies, it suffered a withdrawal of technical backing and had to be grounded earlier this year, he said.

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According to Ben Lord, of Save Concorde Group, it is more important than ever that the aircraft is "put under cover very, very quickly".

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