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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by kloch on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:13PM (#32484856)
There is a Concorde on display at the Museum of Flight near Seattle. You can walk down the aisle but the seats themselves are protected by plexiglass.

The seats do look very cramped and the windows are very small.

The museum of flight is amazing and much more interactive than most air museums.

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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by mhandley on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:26PM (#32485973)
The windows are so small because Concorde cruised at 60,000 feet. At that altitude the usual oxygen masks won't keep you conscious. The windows are small so that if one ever failed, Concorde could descend fast enough to an altitude where the masks would work before the pressure dropped too low.
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